[59] Second, the type of sanctions which may be appropriate for the offender because of his or her particular Aboriginal heritage or connection «bears not on the degree of culpability of the offender, but on the effectiveness of the sentence itself.» (slaw.ca)
Lawyers on both sides have attempted to drop hints about Tsarnaev throughout the trial, trying to assert his personal level of culpability in a crime that the defense acknowledges he carried out with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now deceased. (csmonitor.com)
Those outside the covenant lack the very precondition for culpability for the sin of idolatry. (firstthings.com)