In Lockett v. Ohio, the Court found an Ohio sentencing statute unconstitutional because the 8^th and 14th Amendments required consideration of mitigating evidence offered by the defendant that supported a sentence less than death.

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In Lockett v. Ohio (1978), the Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require that the sentencer in a death penalty case must be able to consider and give effect to any mitigating evidence offered by the defendant that argues against a death sentence.

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