It’s been a century since the state of Virginia executed its last female prisoner.  That streak broke last night.  After a final meal of fried chicken, peas, German cake or apple pie, and a Dr. Pepper, 41-year-old Teresa Lewis was taken for her last walk and executed by lethal injection at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.  Lewis was sentenced to death for organizing the murder of her husband and step-son in 2002.

Lewis was convicted of hiring two men, Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller, to kill her husband Julian Clifton Lewis, Jr. and stepson Charles Lewis, to gain Charles Lewis’s life insurance.  When Charles joined the military reserves in 2002, he received a $250,000 life insurance policy.  Julian Lewis was the first beneficiary.  Hence, both men had to die and Lewis paid to have them executed while they were asleep.  The men who did the actual killing got life in prison; Lewis got the death penalty.

Lewis was put to death despite thousands of appeals on her behalf.  However, I think she deserved the death penalty for her greedy actions.  A crime of passion is one thing; cold-blooded murder is another.  Besides, she shouldn’t get a pass on the death penalty just because she’s a woman.  Feminism is all about equality, and women deserve to die just as much as men.

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