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Virginia to Execute Teresa Lewis, IQ 72

In January 2010, Investigative Fund reporter Renee Feltz wrote a shocking cover story for The Texas Observer revealing that the state of Texas has continued to send mentally retarded inmates to death row — despite a U.S. Supreme Court ban. Now, Virginia is about to execute 41-year-old Teresa Lewis, whose IQ is 72…