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Title: Eddings v. Oklahoma
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 19, 1982
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 73 KB

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Petitioner Monty Lee Eddings was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Because this sentence was imposed without "the type of individualized consideration of mitigating factors . . . required by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments in capital cases," Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586, 606 (1978) (opinion of BURGER, C. J.), we reverse.