Friday, June 11, 2004
 
Sounds Like An Old Joke

So an old joke tells us about the child who kills his parents and begs the court for mercy because he's an orphan, but one woman in Virginia is apparently using it as a defense strategy:
    The only woman on Virginia's death row doesn't deny that she deserves punishment for having her husband and stepson killed so she could collect insurance money.

    But paying the ultimate penalty, says Teresa Lewis, is too much -- especially considering the men who actually did the deed will live out their lives behind bars.

    "I don't think it's fair for the triggermen to get life, and I got the death penalty," she said, speaking by phone through a glass partition at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.

    Lewis pleaded guilty last year to arranging the slayings of her husband and stepson to collect a $250,000 insurance policy.
The punchline: the caption beneath her photo:
    Lewis: "I just feel like I have something to live for. I've got a daughter here."
Apparently, she's not finished.

No laughs, of course, for the absolute pathology involved in saying she shouldn't die because she has something to live for, apparently unlike her husband and stepson.


- posted by Brian J. @ 8:33 PM
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