Teresa Lewis
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Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution. She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murders of her husband
An undated photo of Lewis on death row
Teresa Wilson Bean met future husband Julian Clifton Lewis Jr. at the now-defunct Dan River textile mill.
Mug shot of Matthew Jessee Shallenberger
Governor Bob McDonnell declined to grant clemency.
Danville, Virginia
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Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The city is located in the Southside Virginia region and on the fall line of the Dan River.
Teresa Lewis
…on March 24, 2021, officially making Lewis the last woman to be executed in Virginia. Born on April 26, 1969, Teresa Wilson grew up in poverty in Danville, Virginia, where her parents both worked in a textile mill. Teresa sang in a church during her youth. At 16, she dropped out of school and married a man she met…
Worsham Street overlook, Main & Ridge St. intersection, Masonic building (River City Towers), Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge, municipal building from Union Street, repurposed Dan River Fabrics "Home" sign.(Clockwise from the top)
The Dan River in downtown Danville
Danville was home to tobacco entrepreneur William T. Sutherlin. The city was sometimes called the "last capitol of the Confederacy"
Dan's Hill estate in western Danville