41 Year old Teresa Lewis pleaded guilty and was convicted of getting two men to kill her husband and stepson to cash in on their life insurance policy. The two hitman have both been jailed for life, but were not sentenced to death.
The main question lies over whether she was mentally fit to stand trial?
Campaigners have said that as she had an IQ of 72, she had diminshed mental capability, but she was passed capable enough to stand trial.
The details of the trial are messy. She hired two men to carry out the killings and started an affair with one of them, with defendants are saying that she was manipulated by one of them into carrying out these actions.
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So, what do you think, should she have been put to death or reprieved?
What about the two killers, should they also have received death sentances, or just the life imprisonment?