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 ten capital cases reviewed in this period. The majority of these cases were overturned not on technicalities, but for clearly preventable errors, the most prominent of which were "egregiously incompetent" defense lawyers, prosecutorial misconduct, and faulty instructions to jurors. Combined, these "constitute 76% of all error in capital punishment proceedings." The full text of the report is available online in HTML format, accompanied by state/national capital punishment report cards in .pdf format. Note that all of the appendices to the report are not yet available online, but the Justice Project plans to make them available in the near future.