Obama urges new ways to tackle poverty | Reuters

 

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 65th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 23, 2010.
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Brothers fight it out to lead Labour Party | Reuters

David Miliband, who last week announced his intention to run for the leadership of the Labour Party, speaks to party members at his constituency in South Shields, northern England May 17, 2010.
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Teams delay departures in Commonwealth Games fiasco | Reuters

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - More nations delayed their departure for the Commonwealth Games in India as ....

Five government depts agree spending cuts | Reuters

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LONDON (Reuters) - Five government departments have agreed budget cuts with the country's finance ministry as part of a ....

The Peoples Voice, Sept 23, 2010

09/23/10

US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Virginia woman

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the state of Virginia from executing Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old grandmother. Barring an unlikely last minute stay-of-execution from Governor Robert McDonnell, Lewis will be injected with a lethal poison on Thursday, becoming the first woman put to death by Virginia since 1912.info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.com 

Beaver County Times: Va. to execute first woman in nearly a century

FILE - This 2007 file photo provided by newsPRos shows Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 for trading sex and money in the hired killings of her husband and stepson in October 2002. Virginia's governor has rejected a request to reconsider clemency for Lewis, leaving only the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the state's first execution of a woman in nearly a century. (AP Photo/newsPRos, File)

Virginia to go ahead with execution of woman

The first woman in almost 100 years is to be executed in the US after the Supreme Court earlier this week refused to grant a last-minute reprieve.

Teresa Lewis, 41, is due to die by lethal injection.

Virginia to go ahead with execution of woman

The first woman in almost 100 years is to be executed in the US after the Supreme Court earlier this week refused to grant a last-minute reprieve.

BBC News - US Supreme Court allows execution of Virginia woman

Teresa Lewis was convicted of plotting to kill her husband and stepson
The US Supreme Court has refused to halt the Virginia execution of a woman who admitted conspiring to kill her husband and stepson.
On Thursday Teresa Lewis, 41, is set to become the first woman to be executed in the US for five years and in Virginia since 1912.

Virginia Preparing for Woman's Execution - TIME

Teresa Lewis was sentenced to death for plotting to have her husband and stepson killed in 2002. Lewis could become the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years