Constitutional Law - Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments - Capital Punishment - Mitigating Circumstances

Authors

James F. Risoleo

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has held that the sentencing authority in capital punishment cases may not refuse as a matter of law to consider evidence offered in mitigation of the sentence of death.

Eddings v. Oklahoma, 102 S. Ct. 869 (1982).

First Page

515

Recommended Citation

James F. Risoleo, Constitutional Law - Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments - Capital Punishment - Mitigating Circumstances, 21 Duq. L. Rev. 515 (1983).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol21/iss2/15