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Lockett v. Ohio

Further Readings



  • Bilionis, Louis D. "Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 82, no. 2, summer 1991, pp. 283-333.
  • Domozick, Daniel D. "Fact or Fiction: Mitigating the Death Penalty in Ohio." Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 32, no. 2, spring 1983, pp. 263-293.
  • Fein, Bruce E. Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1976-1977 Term. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978.
  • Gillers, Stephen. "Deciding Who Dies." University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 129, no. 1, November 1980, pp. 1-124.
  • Herz, Randy, and Robert Weisberg. "In Mitigation of the Penalty of Death: Lockett v. Ohio and the Capital Defendant's Right to Consideration of Mitigating Circumstances." California Law Review, Vol. 69, no. 2, March 1981, pp. 317-376.
  • Sundby, Scott E. "The Lockett Paradox: Reconciling Guided Discretion and Unguided Mitigation in Capital Sentencing." UCLA Law Review, Vol. 38, no. 5, June 1991, pp. 1147-1208.

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Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1973 to 1980Lockett v. Ohio - Significance, Did She Deserve To Die?, Deciding Who Shall Die, The Mitigating Factors, The Evidence A Defendant Can Present