I think what they mean is that Virginia Christian was the first woman executed 
after executions were centralized in the State Penitentiary in 1908 rather than 
being carried out by the counties/independent cities.



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From: Anthony Santoro <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 12:52:27 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] New Blog Entry - Virginia Christian

According to the Espy file of known executions, VA put to death nearly 90
women from the 1630s through Virginia Christian (I think it's 88 total, but
it's in that general ballpark). Teresa Lewis would be the first woman put to
death by the state in the post-Furman era, but she would not be the second
woman put to death in Virginia.

Anthony Santoro
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg Center for American Studies

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Dale Dulaney <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> The execution of Teresa Lewis by the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the second
> woman to be executed by the state --  will take place this month barring
> intervention by the courts or the governor. This prompted LVA archivist
> Roger
> Christman to look back at the case of Virginia Christian the first woman
> executed by the state in 1912. Christman’s entry in this week’s Out of the
> Box
> blog presents 51 documents from the archives that tell the story from
> several
> different perspectives.
> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
>
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