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View Resource A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995

Released on June 12 by the Columbia University Justice Project, the "Liebman Study" is a groundbreaking report that examines every capital conviction and appeal between 1973 and 1995 (nearly 5,500 judicial decisions). It finds that in this 23-year period 68 percent of death penalty verdicts were thrown out when appealed. In other words, serious, reversible errors were found in nearly seven out of...

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/121...
View Resource Beyond Reason: The Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation

Released by Human Rights Watch, this report examines the recent history of capital punishment of mentally retarded offenders in the United States, offering "the first comprehensive human rights-based analysis of such executions." The report reveals that 25 US states still permit the execution of offenders with mental retardation and that at least 35 such offenders have been executed since 1976....

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ustat/