First woman in 5 years executed in US amid outcry

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JARRATT, Va. – The first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years has been put to death in Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday. She became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly a century. Supporters and relatives of the victims watchedd her execution at Greensville Correctional Center.

Lewis enticed two men through sex, cash and a promised cut in an insurance policy to shoot the sleeping men in October 2002. Both triggermen were sentenced to life in prison, and one committed suicide in 2006.

More than 7,300 appeals to stop the execution had been made to the governor in a state second only to Texas in the number of people it executes.

First woman in 5 years executed in US amid outcry - Yahoo! News
 
I feel sad because she's executed but not her hired killers and she's not smart. She's not "mastermind" - she's not bright. She should stay in prison for life but to kill her when in fact, she did NOT DIRECTLY kill her husband is a bit troubling.

That's why I oppose death penalty.
 
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So, I guess numerous leaders-gone-bad shouldn't be executed either because their hands were not stained with blood since their henchmen did all the works.
 
Which is how revolution begins. The leaders ultimately pay the price.
 
To prevent from her to being execute is a religious. I afraid, we have to keep thing individual between law and religious.
 
netrox said:
I feel sad because she's executed but not her hired killers and she's not smart. She's not "mastermind" - she's not bright. She should stay in prison for life but to kill her when in fact, she did NOT DIRECTLY kill her husband is a bit troubling.

That's why I oppose death penalty.
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Um, the logic is flawed. She's the one that perpetrated the idea and set things in motion. She offered promises of payment to do the deed when she's a coward to do it herself.

When the deed was carried out, resulting in the death of two men, she alone is responsible for their deaths since she's the one that set things in motion to begin with.

You may be opposed to the death penalty, but wait until someone kills someone you dearly loved and I guarantee that you will want the individual(s) responsible dead or you would kill them in defense of your love ones if you so happen to be there.

So don't talk outta your arse until you've actually been there yourself.

Yiz
 
It's all about "Greed"....and yeah, I agree, she should and was executed for what she did. 2 lives taken away before their time.

There's a lot more prisoners sitting in prison, with a life sentence without parole, that should have been executed to begin with....because of some bleeding hearts quoting the Bible verses and protests against the death penalty.

Have seen my own mother shot to death. So, yes, I'm all for the death penalty, 110%.....no one will ever change my mind about these scumbags!
 
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rockin'robin said:
It's all about "Greed"....and yeah, I agree, she should and was executed for what she did. 2 lives taken away before their time.

There's a lot more prisoners sitting in prison, with a life sentence without parole, that should have been executed to begin with....because of some bleeding hearts quoting the Bible verses and protests against the death penalty.

Have seen my own mother shot to death. So, yes, I'm all for the death penalty, 110%.....no one will ever change my mind about these scumbags!
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The only reason why they designate life sentences is because of all the innocents sitting in jail. Better to jail a murderer for life than to execute an innocent.
 
souggy said:
The only reason why they designate life sentences is because of all the innocents sitting in jail. Better to jail a murderer for life than to execute an innocent.
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That's why we banned it in Canada. People were uncertain that it acted as a deterrent for murder... which it didn't. In fact, the homicide rate went down after they banned it.

Canada used to be pretty brutal back in the ol' days, you didn't have to kill to get the death sentence. They executed soldiers for desertion and cowardice. They even sentenced some teenagers to death.
 
rockin'robin said:
It's all about "Greed"....and yeah, I agree, she should and was executed for what she did. 2 lives taken away before their time.

There's a lot more prisoners sitting in prison, with a life sentence without parole, that should have been executed to begin with....because of some bleeding hearts quoting the Bible verses and protests against the death penalty.

Have seen my own mother shot to death. So, yes, I'm all for the death penalty, 110%.....no one will ever change my mind about these scumbags!
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Actually, they've taken "Thou shalt not kill" as a mistranslation of the Hebrew translation which actually reads, "Thou shalt not murder" and following down the same chapter, you'll discover that the penalty for murder is death.

Liberals love taking things out of context and use it in their favor, for a simple reason. Liberals wants to commit a crime and not have to answer for it without costing themselves their own lives.

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
Liberals love taking things out of context and use it in their favor, for a simple reason. Liberals wants to commit a crime and not have to answer for it without costing themselves their own lives
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Oh yeah, I'm sure they want to murder people for the heck of it. :rme:
 
yizuman said:
Um, the logic is flawed. She's the one that perpetrated the idea and set things in motion. She offered promises of payment to do the deed when she's a coward to do it herself.

When the deed was carried out, resulting in the death of two men, she alone is responsible for their deaths since she's the one that set things in motion to begin with.

You may be opposed to the death penalty, but wait until someone kills someone you dearly loved and I guarantee that you will want the individual(s) responsible dead or you would kill them in defense of your love ones if you so happen to be there.

So don't talk outta your arse until you've actually been there yourself.

Yiz
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:gpost: That's right. Unitl you have walked a mile in my shoes then STFU!!
 
yizuman said:
Um, the logic is flawed. She's the one that perpetrated the idea and set things in motion. She offered promises of payment to do the deed when she's a coward to do it herself.

When the deed was carried out, resulting in the death of two men, she alone is responsible for their deaths since she's the one that set things in motion to begin with.

You may be opposed to the death penalty, but wait until someone kills someone you dearly loved and I guarantee that you will want the individual(s) responsible dead or you would kill them in defense of your love ones if you so happen to be there.

So don't talk outta your arse until you've actually been there yourself.

Yiz
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Uh, Yiz?

My family is in that position. My paternal biological grandfather was brutally murdered when I was a teenager. His killer is still sitting on FL's death row. I can attest that I'm not chomping at the bit wanting to kill this man. Yes, he committed a horrible crime. Yes, that victim was my grandfather. However, the death penalty such as it is, is flawed. I'm not so sure we should bust down the doors of the Florida State prison where my gfather's killer is being held, demanding he be killed.

Personally, what would it serve? This guy has already been behind bars 35 yrs. Why not just sentence this creep to life without parole and call it a day? Tax dollars? Pfft. We're already spending tons of money while this creep exhausts his appeals, so what difference would it make if we just commute his sentence to life without parole? The guy is probably up in age now, anyway, right?
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Uh, Yiz?

My family is in that position. My paternal biological grandfather was brutally murdered when I was a teenager. His killer is still sitting on FL's death row. I can attest that I'm not chomping at the bit wanting to kill this man. Yes, he committed a horrible crime. Yes, that victim was my grandfather. However, the death penalty such as it is, is flawed. I'm not so sure we should bust down the doors of the Florida State prison where my gfather's killer is being held, demanding he be killed.

Personally, what would it serve? This guy has already been behind bars 35 yrs. Why not just sentence this creep to life without parole and call it a day? Tax dollars? Pfft. We're already spending tons of money while this creep exhausts his appeals, so what difference would it make if we just commute his sentence to life without parole? The guy is probably up in age now, anyway, right?
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I've never had anyone in my family who got murdered. However, my childhood best friend's mother was murdered years ago and my friend did not want the killer to suffer the death penalty. She found the body btw and yet didn't want the death sentence imposed on him.

I support the death sentence only if the murder (more likely series of murders) was exceptionally brutal and it's clear the guy is guilty and will kill again without remorse and he's a threat to the public.

I will grant that some innocent people have died wrongly though hence why I say it's very clear the guy is guilty and there is no reasonable room for doubt.

For all other murders, they should get at least 20 years or even life depending on the situation.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Uh, Yiz?

My family is in that position. My paternal biological grandfather was brutally murdered when I was a teenager. His killer is still sitting on FL's death row. I can attest that I'm not chomping at the bit wanting to kill this man. Yes, he committed a horrible crime. Yes, that victim was my grandfather. However, the death penalty such as it is, is flawed. I'm not so sure we should bust down the doors of the Florida State prison where my gfather's killer is being held, demanding he be killed.

Personally, what would it serve? This guy has already been behind bars 35 yrs. Why not just sentence this creep to life without parole and call it a day? Tax dollars? Pfft. We're already spending tons of money while this creep exhausts his appeals, so what difference would it make if we just commute his sentence to life without parole? The guy is probably up in age now, anyway, right?
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Sorry to hear about your grandfather. I will admit however, if a family member of mine were brutally murdered, I would want the person responsible to be put on death row.

But I already know it would never bring my family member back.

I will state something here that I do not believe I have ever told anyone outside of my family. When I was four years old, a group of boys tried to burn my eyes out with a cigarette. They held me down and cut up my arms with a straight razor first.

The oldest one went to jail. He later in life, walked into a grocery store and bought a pepsi. He came back demanding a refund after he had drank it all. Of course, he didn't get his refund. He got angry, walked across the street and made a molotov cocktail out of an aluminum gas container .. came back, and threw it at a line waiting to check out from the grocery store.

He was sentenced to death.

Good riddance.
 
yizuman said:
Um, the logic is flawed. She's the one that perpetrated the idea and set things in motion. She offered promises of payment to do the deed when she's a coward to do it herself.

When the deed was carried out, resulting in the death of two men, she alone is responsible for their deaths since she's the one that set things in motion to begin with.

You may be opposed to the death penalty, but wait until someone kills someone you dearly loved and I guarantee that you will want the individual(s) responsible dead or you would kill them in defense of your love ones if you so happen to be there.

So don't talk outta your arse until you've actually been there yourself.

Yiz
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I agree
 
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