1st woman executed in the US since 2005JARRATT, Va. — Virginia has executed a woman for the first time in the U.S. since 2005. Teresa Lewis was convicted of enticing two men with sex and cash to kill her husband and stepson and is the first woman put to death in the state in nearly a century.
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