Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell said Friday night that he won’t stay the execution of Teresa Lewis, who was sentenced to death for hiring two men to kill her husband and stepson.
She is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday.
“Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency, the judicial opinions in this case, and other relevant materials, I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was imposed by the Circuit Court and affirmed by all reviewing courts,” McDonnell said in a statement.
Lewis will be the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years and the first in the United States since 2005.
She plotted the October 2002 slayings in order to collect $250,000 in life insurance. The two men she hired were both sentenced to life in prison.
