![handle is hein.journals/ucladis68 and id is 1 raw text is: Reversal Rates in Capital Cases in Texas, 2000-2020
David R. Dow & Jeffrey R. Newberry
ABSTRACT
A death row inmate who challenges either his conviction or sentence in postconviction proceedings
can be said to succeed if he obtains either a new guilt-phase trial, a new sentencing-phase trial,
or a commutation of his death sentence.' This Article reports on the success rates of death row
inmates in Texas for those who arrived on death row on or after January 1, 2000, up until December
31, 2019. The data set2 (N=282) covers the status of all these arrivals through February 25, 2020.
AUTHOR
David R. Dow is Cullen Professor, University of Houston Law Center.
Jeffrey R. Newberry is Clinical Supervising Attorney, Death Penalty Clinic, University of Houston
Law Center.
1. Because women represent only around 2 percent of the total death row population in the United States, it
would be precious to say he or she when referring to these inmates; we therefore refer to death row inmates
using masculine pronouns. See DEATH PENALTY INFO. CTR., FACTS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY 3 (2020),
https://files.de athpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/FactSheet.f1585003454.pdf [https://perma.cc/N5ZM-4C
3V] (reportingthat, asofJuly 1,2019,womenmadeup fifty-fiveoutof2656 (2.07percent) inmatesondeathrow).
2. See Appendix, Texas Capital Rates, 68 UCLA L. REV app. (2020), https://www.uclalawreview.orgwp-
content/uploads/2020/04/texas-capital-rates.xlsx [https://perma.cc/9VAE-HVTG].
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