In Locket v. Ohio, the Court expanded the application of the _________________by invalidating an Ohio capital sentencing statute.

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The Court in Lockett v. Ohio expanded the application of the 8th and 14th Amendments by ruling that the Ohio statute was too restrictive in limiting the mitigating factors that could be considered in capital sentencing, thus violating the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause.

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