1. Thompson v. Okla., No. 86-6169 , SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, November 9, 1987, Argued , June 29, 1988, Decided
OVERVIEW: The imposition of a death sentence on defendant who was 15 at the time he participated in a murder was nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering, and it violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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