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Criminal procedure (sentence) — offences under Criminal Law Code — murder — extenuating circumstances — what are — murder committed during course of armed robbery — extenuating circumstances unlikely
Extenuating circumstances are any facts bearing on the commission of the crime which reduce the moral blameworthiness of the accused, as distinct from his legal culpability. In other words, an extenuating circumstance, being a fact associated with the crime, must upon its consideration by a reasonable person serve to diminish in that person's mind the degree of the prisoner's guilt in the moral sense. Those who commit murder in the course of robbery are themselves responsible for the creation of circumstances relating to the commission of the crime, which circumstances, in many cases would not in the mind of a reasonable person reduce the degree of their moral blameworthiness for the purposes of avoiding the mandatory sentence of death.
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