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On the recordApril 21, 2010
When you said in your sentence--you said he shouldn't have been sentenced--'shouldn't have been convicted', then you said 'he shouldn't have been sentenced to death because sexual sadism is a mitigating factor--clearly, a mitigating factor'.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions questions the judge's comments on sentencing and mitigating factors.

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