Maynard v. Cartwright
     Case Date: 11/03/1988
     
            
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 	Maynard v. Cartwright 486 U. S. 356 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case [1] in which the Court found that the "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" standard for the application of the death penalty as defined by the Eighth Amendment was too vague.
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