Woman's execution to go ahead in Virginia tomorrow

A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution.

Teresa Lewis, 41, was sentenced to death for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a $250,000 dollar (€187,000) insurance pay out. The nation’s high court refused to intervene yesterday.