Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer join, dissenting. In Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U. S. 586 (1978), the Court set aside Ohio’s death penalty statute as unconstitutional because it unduly restricted the mitigat…
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