Woodson v. North Carolina

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Woodson_v._North_Carolina
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:citation gptkb:428_U.S._280
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date July 2, 1976
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy gptkb:Justice_Byron_White
gptkb:Justice_William_Rehnquist
gptkb:Justice_William_Brennan
Chief Justice Warren Burger
gptkbp:docketNumber 74-1173
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Woodson_v._North_Carolina
gptkbp:heldBy Mandatory death penalty statutes are unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Woodson v. North Carolina
gptkbp:involvedState gptkb:North_Carolina
gptkbp:joinedBy gptkb:Justice_Harry_Blackmun
gptkb:Justice_John_Paul_Stevens
gptkb:Justice_Byron_White
gptkb:Justice_Lewis_Powell
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:Justice_Potter_Stewart
gptkbp:principle Prohibition of mandatory death sentences
Requirement for individualized sentencing in capital cases
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Roberts_v._Louisiana
gptkb:Gregg_v._Georgia
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkb:Eighth_Amendment
Death penalty
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Gregg_v._Georgia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6