 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.Thousands of supporters argued that her death sentence should have been commuted to life imprisonment.Lewis' attorney James E. Rocap III said, "A good and decent person is about to lose her life because of a system that is broken ... it is grossly unfair to impose the death sentence on her while Shallenberger and Fuller received life."