What does rehabilitable mean?
Rehabilitable means Able to be rehabilitated.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Able to be rehabilitated.
Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?
The patient with the latter carries an obvious stigma as the one less likely to be fully rehabilitable for social usefulness.
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Rehabilitable means Able to be rehabilitated.
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Even if rational people conclude that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it is not administered with unnecessary pain, that there are criminals who are not rehabilitable, that it is less expensive than prison, it still violates the Eighth Amendment?
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