Sentence examples for reduced culpability from inspiring English sources

Once again citing research confirming the reduced culpability and impetuosity of youth, the Court banned the sentence for all but the rare and uncommon juvenile who was permanently incorrigible or irretrievably depraved.

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly acknowledged that children must be treated differently in our courts, recognizing the developmental immaturity, reduced impulse control, reduced ability to understand long-term consequences and thus reduced culpability of youth who are charged even with the most serious crimes.

The related question of whether an impairment of responsibility is "substantial' enough to reduce culpability from murder to manslaughter will be for the jury to determine, looking at all the facts surrounding the killing and examining whether the medical condition played a determining role.

Gigerenzer said governments shared the blame for excess deaths in the wake of terrorism or natural disasters, due to efforts to reduce their culpability for any misfortune.

Failure to deliberate about a crime implies either a fundamental disregard for or an insensitivity to values and neither seems to reduce the culpability of a criminal act.

Judge Heinrichs also found, "There is clear medical and collateral evidence that the Prozac affected his behavior and judgment, thereby reducing his moral culpability" (p. 20).

It is possible to conjecture that if these family members had used gene talk to endorse solely genetic models of schizophrenia aetiology, these feelings of potential culpability might have been reduced.

Complex problems are reduced to a simple narrative of personal culpability.

Jackie Lacey was pursuing a case that had grown far more egregious in the eyes of American justice than it was in 1977, when a prosecutor accepted a reduced plea to spare the victim trauma, and both a probation officer and the psychiatrist who evaluated Polanski minimized his culpability.

(He also drew criticism from his description of the Nazis as "a ring of criminals" who had "used and abused" the German people, phrases that seemed to reduce the scope of German culpability).

Attention to the complexities of causation and context in no way reduces the evil of the genocide or the culpability of the perpetrators.