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RICHMOND, Va., July 29 (UPI) -- An execution date was scheduled Thursday which, if carried out, would be the first execution of a woman in Virginia in nearly a century, court records showed.
A Sept. 23 execution was scheduled for Teresa W. Lewis, 41, of Pittsylvania County that if seen through will be the first female execution since 1912in the state, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
James R. Rocap III, Lewis's lawyer, said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the execution and will file a clemency petition with Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Lewis, 41, contracted to have her husband, Julian Clifton Lewis Jr., and her stepson, Charles J. Lewis, killed in their trailer Oct. 30, 2002, the Times-Dispatch reported.
The murderers, Matthew Jessee Shallenberger, 29, and Rodney Lamont Fuller, 27, received life sentences, the newspaper said.
Lewis was the mastermind of the murders, prosecutors said, adding she wanted her stepson's life-insurance money and her husband's estate.
But her attorneys say she has low intelligence, a personality disorder, and a history of drug addiction that would preclude her being a mastermind.
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TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The mother of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his sons in a fire in Washington state, said in divorce papers he exhibited disturbing behavior as a teenager.
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