Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010) was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution.

[3] Following dozens of low-paying jobs, Teresa Wilson Bean found work in the spring of 2000 at the Dan River textile mill, where her supervisor was Julian Clifton Lewis Jr.[8][3] He was a recent widower with three children, Jason, Charles, and Kathy.

In December 2001, Julian's older son, Jason Clifton Lewis, was killed in a car accident, leaving his father $200,000 from a life insurance policy.

[3] In August 2002, Julian's younger son, Charles J. Lewis, obtained a $250,000 insurance policy in preparation for his impending deployment to Iraq as part of the United States Army Reserve.

[8][3] In the fall of 2002, Teresa Lewis met 21-year-old Matthew Jessee Shallenberger and 19-year-old Rodney Lamont Fuller at a Wal-Mart in Danville and began a sexual relationship with both of them.

[8][9] A week later, on the night of October 30, Shallenberger and Fuller entered the Lewises' trailer through a back door that Teresa had left open.

[3] However, sheriff's deputies arrived prior to Julian dying, and heard him say, "My wife knows who done this to me,"[10] while she had claimed the two had been killed by unidentified assailants in a home invasion.

In addition to a low IQ, Lewis was said by her lawyer to have an addiction to pain pills, and she was diagnosed with dependent personality disorder by three different forensic psychology experts.

[18] In November 2004, a private investigator met Shallenberger at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia on behalf of Lewis.

[20] Her supporters stated that "Lewis is deeply remorseful and has been a model prisoner, helping fellow female inmates cope with their circumstances.

[19] Lewis's last meal consisted of two fried chicken breasts, sweet peas with butter, a Dr Pepper and apple pie for dessert.

Lewis's execution started a debate in the U.S. and other parts of the world concerning capital punishment, and more specifically the application of death sentences on women in murder cases.

[35] Richard Dieter, executive of the Death Penalty Information Center, argued that "so few women are involved in more heinous murders that, when they are, they cause greater offense than if they had been men.

Ken Cuccinelli, then the Attorney General of Virginia, had stated that "the brutal nature of the crimes themselves as well as Lewis' callous, manipulating, adulterous, greedy, egregious behavior" justified the death sentence.

"[5] Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cited the case to denounce Western media coverage of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman in Iran who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

He claimed the media's "heavy propaganda" campaign was perpetrating a double standard by not responding with similar outrage over Lewis's impending execution.