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Va. woman who persuaded men to kill husband, stepson to be 1st US execution of woman since '05

DENA POTTERAssociated Press Writer1:30 PM EDT, July 29, 2010An undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Teresa Lewis, 40. On Thursday, July 29, 2010, a Pittsylvania County, Va., Circuit judge set a Sept. 23 execution for Lewis. Lewis was sentenced to death for plotting to have her husband and stepson killed in 2002 so she could collect a $250,000 life insurance policy. Lewis would be the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections) (AP/ July 29, 2010)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? A Virginia woman who used sex and money to persuade two men to kill her husband and her stepson to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy was scheduled Thursday to be executed in two months, which would be the first U...continue to full post

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