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EDDINGS v. OKLAHOMA

No. 80-5727.

455 U.S. 104 (1982)

102 S.Ct. 869

71 L.Ed.2d 1

EDDINGS v. OKLAHOMA

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1982

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay C. Baker, by appointment of the Court, 451 U.S. 981, argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

David W. Lee, Assistant Attorney General of Oklahoma, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Jan Eric Cartwright, Attorney General, and Tomilou Gentry Liddell, Assistant Attorney General.*

Daniel J. Popeo and Paul D. Kamenar filed a brief for the Washington Legal Foundation as amicus curiae.

JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

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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