Execution after life of sex, prayers and betrayal

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.

That dark side led her life to a deadly turn in 2002 when she plied two men with sex and cash to kill her husband and stepson to collect on a $250,000 (€185,000) insurance policy. For that, the 41-year-old yesterday was the first woman put to death in Virginia since 1912.

Lewis died by injection, apologising first to the sole surviving daughter of the husband she had killed.