MGP #3

Personal Letter: Teresa Lewis Case

Henry K.

I honestly can’t believe what I seen with my own eyes today. The only thing that kept running through my head was “What about her illness?” I sat there as a tear rolled down her left eye. Teresa Lewis was being executed for the murder of her stepson and his father, her husband. Personally I think they should have reconsidered and just given her life in prison. Think about it: with her being mentally retarded she is easily manipulated. Her lover, Matthew Shallenberger, and his friend, Rodney Fuller, shot both the son and father while she sat in the kitchen. I believe that the young men found out that her husband was in the army and convinced her to go alone with the plan. She is mentally retarded for God’s sake! How can she come up with that plan by herself? I noticed I wasn’t the only person who thought the execution could have been a life sentence instead. The European Union asked to commute her sentence to life along with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in New York. It sickened me to watch this woman get executed while the two who were most likely behind the entire crime only got life sentences. I hope this never happens again. I sympathize with the victims’ family, indeed, but we all know she didn’t deserve the death row.

Glod, Maria. "Teresa Lewis Execution." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 24 Sept. 2010. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.