"offender" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Indeed, its conclusion that executing mentally retarded offenders now is cruel and unusual punishment directly contradicts a decision it issued only 13 years ago.
- Hortham was an "open" colony which specialised in training mentally retarded offenders for resettlement in the community.
- That was the debate on the Supreme Court that a 6-to-3 majority resolved by declaring that the country has turned against executing mentally retarded offenders.
- The Atkins decision also focused on the relative culpability of mentally retarded offenders.
- The decision reinforced federal statutes already barring the execution of mentally retarded offenders and, to Mr. Kindlon's mind, further bolstered his arguments.
- The Court noted that "within the world community, the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders is overwhelmingly disapproved."
- The parties have not called our attention to any state legislative consideration of the suitability of imposing the death penalty on mentally retarded offenders prior to 1986.
- Moreover, even in those states that allow the execution of mentally retarded offenders, the practice is uncommon.
- Instead, it adverts to the fact that other countries have disapproved imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by mentally retarded offenders.
- We are one of the few countries in the world that puts to death both the mentally retarded and juvenile offenders.
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