He believes that working women and feminist are detrimental to the family. Virginia Republican Governor, Robert McDonnell denied Terry Lewis, a chance to change execution to life in prison. Instead she became the first women executed in Virginia in 100 years .
Even though one of the two men involved in the murders said,”Killing Julian and Charles Lewis was entirely my idea,” wrote Matthew Shallenberger who along with Rodney Fuller, broke into her home the night before Halloween in 2002 and shot her husband and stepson to death.
Yet, they both received life sentences and Lewis the death penalty by lethal injection. Shallenberger admitted he needed the money and Lewis was easy target. Still, McDonnell disregarded any new information from her lawyers.
And his writings appear overladen with criticism about working women and feminists. He, ” criticized federal tax credits for child care expenditures because they encouraged women to enter the workforce.” He went on to say feminism is among the “real enemies of the traditional family.” “In 2001, he voted against a resolution in support of ending wage discrimination between men and women.”
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