Percentage of death penalty cases with serious judicial error between 1973 and 1995.
Kentucky 100%
Maryland 100%
Tennessee 100%
Mississippi 91%
Wyoming 89%
California 87%
Montana 87%
Idaho 82%
Georgia 80%
Arizona 79%
Alabama 77%
Indiana 75%
Oklahoma 75%
Florida 73%
NorthCarolina 71%
Arkansas 70%
Nevada 68%
SouthCarolina 67%
Utah 67%
Illinois 66%
Nebraska 65%
Louisiana 64%
Pennsylvania 57%
Texas 52%
Missouri 32%
Virginia 18%
                   Source:"A Broken System Error Rates in Capital Cases" by Prof .James Liebman of the Columbia School of Law.

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