Lockett v. Ohio, No. 74-6257 (U.S. Supreme Court) (438 U.S. 586; 98 S.Ct. 2954) (July 3, 1978) (Justice Burger)
In this case the Court was presented with the issue of whether Ohio "violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by sentencing Sandra Lockett to death pursuant to a statute that narrowly limit[ed] the sentencer's discretion to consider the circumstances of the crime and the record and character of the offender ...
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