In 1988, in Thompson v. Oklahoma, the Supreme Court held that imposing capital punishment on a person who was 15 at the time the murder was committed constitutes ____________________________________ and therefore violates the Eighth Amendment.
A) cruel and unusual punishment
B) a violation of the proportionality doctrine
C) a proper use of the proportionality doctrine
D) a human rights violation
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