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What percentage of death penalty cases is reversed?

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What percentage of death penalty cases is reversed?

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In Harris County the affirmance rate, that is the rate of death sentences being upheld on initial review is in excess of 80%. When those cases that are reversed are later retried, that becomes nearly a 90% success rate.

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