__________ refers to the convicted offender's personal statement to the court prior to imposition of sentence.

Question

A. The agreement of submission
B. Voir dire
C. Retribution
D. Allocution

is it D

2. When the framers of the Constitution incorporated the ban against cruel and unusual punishment into the Bill of Rights, what they probably had in mind was:
A. the death penalty.
B. the punishment imposed for treason under English common law.
C. the many grisly forms of execution that had appeared in human history, such as flaying and burning at the stake.
D. capital punishment for all crimes other than the more serious violent crimes.

im confused between A n D

Answer 1

1. is correct.

2. A and D are not right. The framers of the Constitution were considering C as cruel and unusual.