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title: 'New Study from Texas Defender Service'
description: 'NEW STUDY BY TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE Read Deadly Speculation - Misleading Texas Capital Juries with False Predictions of Future Dangerousness (PDF), a new…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-study-from-texas-defender-service'
section: news
date: '2004-03-31T22:13:00-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:53:56-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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!  **NEW STUDY BY TEXAS DEFENDER SERVICE**  
Read [ **Deadly Speculation - Misleading Texas Capital Juries with False Predictions of Future Dangerousness**](http://texasdefender.org/DEADLYSP.PDF) (**PDF**), a new report from the [ **Texas Defender Service**](http://texasdefender.org/) about the unreliability of future dangerousness predictions in Texas death penalty cases. Such speculative testimony is the key factor in who receives the death penalty in Texas. Among those predicted to be a future danger was Randall Dale Adams, who was later found innocent and freed from death row.