Ex parte Mathes’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Special Issue Number 1: “Whether the conduct of the defendant that caused the death of the deceased was committed deliberately and with reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result? Answer yes or no; answered ‘Yes’.” Special Issue Number 2: “Whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society; answer yes or no; answered ‘No’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Mathes v. State