USA: Woman with low IQ set for execution in USA: Teresa Lewis

Index Number: AMR 51/074/2010
Date Published: 19 August 2010
Categories: USA

Teresa Lewis, a woman assessed as having "borderline mental retardation", is scheduled for execution in Virginia, USA, on 23 September as the “mastermind” of the murder of her husband and stepson. The men who carried out the killing received life prison sentences.