Teresa Lewis [SEP] place of death
2010. Dissenting Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor indicated that they would have granted a stay.
Execution.
Lewis' last meal consisted of two fried chicken breasts, sweet peas with butter, a Dr Pepper and apple pie for dessert. Lewis addressed stepdaughter Kathy Lewis Clifton, who came to witness her execution, to apologize for killing her brother and father.
Lewis was executed on September 23, 2010, at 9 p.m. by lethal injection, at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt. This made her the 12th
, Virginia Christian in 1912 and Teresa Lewis in 2010, have been put to death by the state since it took over executions from the counties. The last execution for rape took place on February 17, 1961.
See also.
- List of individuals executed in Virginia
- Crime in Virginia
- Law of Virginia
External links.
- Virginia death penalty information from Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
- Summaries of Recent Poll Findings from Death Penalty Information Center
- Virginia execution chamber and gurney