Legal Opinion
Eddings v. Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1982No. 80-5727PublishedCited by 3,068 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
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.
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On April 4, 1977, Eddings, a 16-year-old youth, and several younger companions ran away from their Missouri homes. They traveled in a car owned by Eddings’ brother, and drove *106without destination or purpose in a southwesterly direction…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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