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In the 1989 Case of Stanford V.Kentucky,the Court

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In the 1989 case of Stanford v.Kentucky,the Court:


A) held that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment did not forbid imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by people at 16 and 17 years of age.
B) ruled in a 5-4 opinion that it was unconstitutional to sentence a 15-year-old to death.
C) held that a potential juror's mere reservations about the death penalty were insufficient grounds to prevent that person from serving on the jury in a death penalty case.
D) ruled that the death penalty,as imposed and carried out under the laws of Georgia,was cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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