Legal Opinion
Lockett v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 3, 1978No. 76-6997PublishedCited by 4,745 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*589Mr. Chief Justice Burger
delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to the constitutionality of petitioner’s conviction (Parts I and II), together with an opinion (Part III), in which Mr. Justice Stewart, Mr. Justice Powell, and Mr. Justice Stevens joined, on the constitutionality of the statute under which petitioner was sentenced to death, and announced the judgment of the Court.
We granted certiorari in this case to consider, among other questions, whether Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by sentencing Sandra Lockett to death pursuant to a statute1 that narrowly limits…
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