Legal Opinion
Woodson v. North Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 2, 1976No. 75-5491PublishedCited by 2,799 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment of the Court, and opinion of
Mr. Justice Stewart, Mr. Justice Powell, and Mr. Justice Stevens, announced by Mr. Justice Stewart.
The question in this case is whether the imposition of a death sentence for the crime of first-degree murder under the law of North Carolina violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
I
The petitioners were convicted of first-degree murder as the result of their participation in an armed robbery *283of a convenience food store, in the course of which the cashier was killed and a customer was seriously wounded. There were four participants in the robbery: the…
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