JARRATT, Va. — The first woman executed in the United States in five years was put to death in Virginia on Thursday for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment. Teresa Lewis, 41, died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. She became the first woman executed […]
Take a Giant Step, a play by Louis Peterson, opened on Broadway (1953). Patrick Kelly, an African-American designer who became famous in Paris, born (1954). President Eisenhower orders federal troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. to prevent interference with school integration of nine Black students (1957). U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered […]
