THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WILLIAMSBURG -- A Williamsburg woman will spend seven and a half years in prison for trying to hire a man to kill her husband.

Nancy Sue Lasiewski pleaded guilty in February to attempted capital murder, killing for hire, after she made a $40 down payment to an undercover police officer she believed was a hit man.

The woman, 42, testified during sentencing today that she never intended to go through with the deal and that she told the would-be hit man not to do anything until she paid in full. Prosecutors had said she agreed to pay $10,000 to have her husband killed, but Lasiewski said she never set a price.

She testified that Richard Lasiewski was an absentee father who drank too much and that he had threatened to kill her if she relocated to Florida with their three children.

Information from the Daily Press in Newport News