Teresa Lewis' Execution Set For September 23 in Virginia

Teresa Lewis Will Be the First U.S. Woman Executed in the Last Five Years

Teresa Lewis is currently on death row for paying two men to kill her husband Julian Clifton Lewis and her stepson Charles J. Lewis, and then offering herself and her 16-year-old daughter for sex to the two men.

She gave the two gunmen Rodney Fuller and Matthew Shallenberger the murder weapons and watched while they shot her husband and stepson in 2002 in Pittsylvania County reports the Associated Press. Teresa Lewis then went through her husband's pockets while he was dying and then waited almost one hour before phoning 911.

Both Rodney Fuller and Matthew Shallenberger were sentenced to life in prison, and Shallenberger committed suicide there in 2006. Teresa Lewis' daughter Christie Lynn Bean served five years for knowing about the murders but not saying anything to anyone.

Teresa Lewis' attorney James Rocap III maintains that his client should not be executed as he says Shallenberger admitted in 2004 that he had planned the killings and he was just using Teresa Lewis so he could get part of the life insurance policy.

Teresa Lewis will be the first woman executed in Virginia since 1912, when Virginia Christian was sentenced to the electric chair for killing her employer. She is also the first woman to be executed in the whole of the United States as the last woman was Frances Newton, who was put to death by lethal injection for killing her husband and two young children.