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Thompson v. Oklahoma. William Wayne Thompson v. State of Oklahoma. Defendant tried as an adult and convicted of murder of his brother-in-law, who had been abusing his ex-wife, who was Thompson's sister; was found guilty; and was sentenced to death. Appealed to Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma, decision affirmed, 1986 OK CR 130, 724 P.2d 780.
The legal fight began. It ended in 1984 with the Supreme Court, with a 7-2 decision, delivering a debilitating blow to the NCAA, which had never before endured such a defeat. Suddenly, schools and ...
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. [1] The 5–4 decision overruled Stanford v. Kentucky, in which the court had upheld execution of offenders at or ...
The case was decided concurrently with United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U.S. 75 (1947). Justice Reed noted that the United States did not raise the issue of standing in a timely fashion. However, he interpreted the government's argument to be that no actual penalty had yet been applied and thus the case was not yet ripe for review.
VIII, XIV. Overruled by. Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005) Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), was a United States Supreme Court case that sanctioned the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least 16 years of age at the time of the crime. [1] This decision came one year after Thompson v.
Skinner v. State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), is a unanimous United States Supreme Court ruling [1] that held that laws permitting the compulsory sterilization of criminals are unconstitutional as it violates a person's rights given under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause.
Broadrick v. Oklahoma. Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. 601 (1973), is a United States Supreme Court decision upholding an Oklahoma statute which prohibited state employees from engaging in partisan political activities. Broadrick is often cited to enunciate the test for a facial overbreadth challenge that "the overbreadth of a statute must not ...
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents. McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637 (1950), was a United States Supreme Court case that prohibited racial segregation in state supported graduate or professional education. [1] The unanimous decision was delivered on the same day as another case involving similar issues, Sweatt v.