Sentence examples for less culpability from inspiring English sources

The rank and file have far less culpability for terrorist attacks than do their leaders, and killing them is less likely to impair terrorist operations.

The question of nature versus nurture or choice is always manipulated in terms of ascribing more or less culpability to our sexual preference; finding the bugger and the buggered more or less responsible.

An article on Saturday about defendants in many states who draw the harshest sentences even though they have less culpability in a crime misstated the given name of an Ohio inmate who was executed in 2009 for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot even though others involved in the crime were not sentenced to die.

It's almost as if the more ignorant they choose to remain, the less culpability they feel for the way things are.

When you stop thinking in terms or "I" and start thinking "we" things can change dramatically.Is that because people feel less culpable if the culpability is spread?There is a diffusion of responsibility, yes.

"There is less moral culpability attached to the defendant who is … intoxicated," the judge said.

Critics slammed the judge for being sympathetic to Turner and concluding that there was "less moral culpability" because he was intoxicated at the time.

In his controversial decision, the judge cited Turner's age and lack of criminal record and said there was "less moral culpability" because he was intoxicated at the time.

In sentencing, judge Persky appeared to suggest that he felt the defendant had "less moral culpability" because he was drunk, and that a light sentence would be an "antidote" to the anxiety Turner had suffered from the media scrutiny of the case.

Persky, who is also a former Stanford athlete, expressed sympathy for Turner, telling a crowded courtroom in Palo Alto that he had already suffered from the media attention and that there was "less moral culpability" because he was drunk at the time.

Further scrutiny on the judge's remarks at sentencing appear to suggest he concluded the defendant had "less moral culpability" because he was drunk, and that a light sentence would be an "antidote" to the anxiety he had suffered from intense media attention on the case.