The U.S. Supreme Court, in Eddings v. Oklahoma (1982), has ruled that a trial court must consider any information that argues against a death sentence.

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In Eddings v. Oklahoma (1982), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the trial court must consider all relevant mitigating evidence before imposing a death sentence, emphasizing that the sentencer must not be precluded from considering any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.

The US Supreme Court, in Eddings V