>>>>And the article I saw in yesterday's paper indicated that she's borderline mentally retarded. Didn't provide enough info to back that up, but it certainly raises questions for me.
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>>>>And those questions would be...?
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>>>If she was really mentally challenged, she may not have had the capacity to be responsible for this. The same article talked about her being talked into this--if she had reduced capacity, she may have paid with her life for someone else's crime.
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>>>Since all I know about this case is the two articles I read in the paper the last few days, all I have are questions.
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>>>Tamar
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>>According to this article http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/virginia-execute-woman-100-years/ the woman had an IQ between 70 and 72, which clearly proves your point that she was mentally challenged.
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>Nonetheless has full rights as a citizen - including the right to vote. Can't have it both ways. if one is incapable of being responsible for being part of a murder plot then one is certainly incapable of voting or having other rights as a citizen that this woman obviously had - to no one's objection and which i am sure would have involved outrage had anyone tried to question them on the basis of her IQ.

With that, I agree. Time to have an iq test right before entering the voting booth.... :o) Going back to our fore fathers and their ideas and who should be available to vote (only land owners), it would still be an improvement and at least we would guarantee some level of intelligence...