In Roper v. Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for:

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In Roper v. Simmons (2005), the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for juvenile offenders (individuals who were under 18 years old at the time of their crime). The court held that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits executing juvenile offenders because they are less culpable than adult offenders and because their brains are not fully developed. Therefore, choice D is correct. The other options (A, B, and C) are not correct because the case only addressed juvenile offenders, not the severely mentally ill, mentally disabled, or women.

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