TERESA LEWIS spent the last days before her execution as she had spent one side of her life – singing hymns and praying. That devotion to Christianity, by her own admission, was countered by outrageous bouts of sex and betrayal.

The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia today for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a 250,000 US dollar insurance payment.

VIRGINIA was moving forward last night with its first execution of a woman in nearly a century amid appeals from the European Union.

The US state of Virginia is today due to carry out its first execution of a woman in nearly a century amid appeals from the European Union and repercussions that reached as far away as Iran.

A man who killed a store owner by sawing at his neck with a pocket-knife during a 1997 robbery has been executed in Virginia.