Mulligan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “in the sense of serious physical abuse to the victim because eyewitness testimony, supplemented by the autopsy report, indicated that the victim had been repeatedly raped and repeatedly sodomized prior to death. The court also found that this treatment of the victim demonstrated depravity of mind. The court held that 162 the present jury was authorized to find, consistently with the United States Supreme Court's holding in Godfrey that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the murder of the victim was of a type universally condemned by civilized society as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Francis

2. “outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture or depravity of mind....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Francis