developing right now for you the food and drug administration has just ruled that they will allow the diabetes pill avandia to stay on the market but stay on with restrictions. fda panel recommended in july that avandia stay on the market but with additional warnings to be placed on its label. the state of virginia is now preparing to execute a woman for the first time in nearly a century. it s a case that s drawn international attention and outramg from the european union, even iran s president. tonight at 9:00, theresa lewis is scheduled to die by lethal injection. she is convicted of hiring a mittm hitman. covers crime and the courts and she interviewed theresa lewis. she joins me now on the telephone and let s start with the legal appeals part of this.
the largest student pop lag. they dpds what every student in texas in the public school system can and cannot study. that market is so huge the publishers really have to pay attention to the sensitivities. in less than seven hours the state of virginia will execute a woman for the first time in nearly a century. theresa lewis is scheduled to die at 9:00 p.m. by lethal injection. she was convicted of capital murder for hire for the murders of her husbands and stepson back in 2002. her defense attorney has argued that she lacked the mental capacity to plan the murders. maria interviewed theresa lewis. she joins us by phone. her i.q. was tested twice. she scored 73 and 70, which qualified her as mentally disabled, according to the supreme court. what does the governor say is the reason for not stepping in?
a principal criteria is whether or not you are a serious danger to society. theresa lewis in prison is not a danger. she s been nothing but helpful to fellow prisoners. she needs to be punished and kept in prison. the death beenality is for extreme cases. this is not her participation, her level of culpability and understanding. she doesn t fit this. this deem nonization of her as a serpent and evil is a gross mischaracterization. would we be having this debate if she were a man? there have been a number of articles and people who came out and said this is all about not all about but very much about gender. i don t think this case would attract as much attention. i think if she had gone before a jury and if her lawyers recommended that instead of pleading guilty and going from a judge for sentencing, she wouldn t have been given the den
saying that she was a cold, emotionalless killer who was only motivated by money. that judge, by the way, actually gave her two death sentences and then tacked on 53 years. shep? shepard: the supreme court reinstated the death penalty a quarter century ago. since then governments in the united states have only executed 11 women. now the president of iran is drawing parallels somehow between this case and another one that s gained a lot of attention from his country. yeah. it s actually the case of a woman named astini she was the woman sentenced to death by stoning because of adultery. that sentence by the way for now has been put on hold. but iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is accusing the west of launching a major propaganda campaign to save her life while not reacting at all to the imminent execution of theresa lewis. critics point out that double homicide and adultery are very,
her husband julian lewis an her stepson c.j. in their mobile home in virginia. this was a crime of conspiracy. lewis didn t fire the shots. the two men who did only got life sentences. the judge called theresa lewis the head of this serpent but her attorneys say her i.q. is in the low 70s, and she has dependent personality disorder, making her vel neshl to coercion by others. is it your coercion in this crime? yes. shallen berger and the experts have stated that she was being used by shallenberger, not the other way around. reporter: shallenberger had an affair before the killings. they have letters saying the only reason he sleft with lewis was so she would give me the