Ken was 16 when he committed a murder in Texas. Explain why, after his conviction, he did not receive the death penalty.
What will be an ideal response?
In Roper v. Simmons (2005), the U.S. Supreme Court held that persons who were 17 years old or younger at the time the capital crime was committed could not be executed.
Political Science
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In some areas of rural Latin America, merging traditional local gods with Catholic saints provides an example of
a. syncretism. b. assimilation. c. acculturation. d. subjugation. e. paternalism.
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