[DOWNLOAD] "Eddings v. Oklahoma" by Supreme Court of the United States # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

eBook details

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

Description

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.