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On the recordApril 21, 2010
Well, you said "he should never have been convicted" and then went on to say "or if convicted, he never should have been sentenced to death because sexual sadism is clearly a mitigating factor." Can you cite any authority in which sexual sadism has been defined as a mitigating factor?
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions questions the validity of sexual sadism as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

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