Teresa Lewis is due to be executed in Virginia this week having been convicted of 'murder for hire'. This woman had paid money to two men to butcher her husband and stepson so she could gain the insurance money! On the scale of murders, this must rank as one of the very worst.Naturally, The Guardian headlines are majoring on the fact that she is a woman and this is one of their twin attacks on the imposition of this well-merited penalty. (In spite of her diabolical cleverness in the organisation of this crime - the other is to lamely claim that 'she has learning difficulties', the relevance of which, if true, I fail to see when she is clearly not mentally retarded in any way.)
No. The point of this article is not really to do with the death penalty - but rather, has much to do with The Grauniad's approach.
The most feminist of all UK newspapers, it ironically takes the line that 'she shouldn't be executed because she is a woman'.
Excuse me but isn't this the perfect proof that feminism has no interest in equality?
