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Protestors outside the Virginia correctional centre where Teresa Lewis was executed. Steve Helber/AP/Press Association Images
Death Row
Virginia executes Teresa Lewis by lethal injection
Meanwhile, Georgia prepares to execute death row man who attempted suicide this week.
THE EXECUTION OF TERESA LEWIS by lethal injection went ahead last night in Virginia shortly after 9pm (2am Irish time), the NY Daily News reports.
Lewis, 41, was the first woman executed in the state for almost 100 years. Virginia has executed 100 men since 1976.
Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court rejected her appeal for a stay of execution. She was sentenced to death for arranging the murder of her husband and stepson in 2002.
Yesterday, Georgia’s supreme court denied a stay of execution for a death row inmate who had attempted suicide. Brandon Rhode cut his arms and neck just hours before he was due to be killed by lethal injection.
The state delayed the execution until today, and Rhode is due to be executed tonight. He has been kept restrained since the suicide attempt, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Rhode is one of two men sentenced to death for the murder of a man and his two children during a burglary of their home in 1998.
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