![]() ![]() ![]() ( Jordan Smith at The Intercept offers the most comprehensive account of where the case stands.)Īnd yet, Reed’s situation also is all too common: every death row prisoner in the United States faces high barriers when they want to argue they are innocent after trial. Late last month, Reed’s lawyers at the Innocence Project unveiled an affidavit from a man saying he heard Fennell boast, “I had to kill my nigger-loving fiancé.” Fennell has never been charged and, through a lawyer, has denied killing Stites. Witnesses have come forward with evidence that points to former police officer Jimmy Fennell, who was Stites’ fiancé at the time of her death. Although his semen was found on Stites’s body, Reed, who is black, has maintained he was in a consensual relationship with Stites, who was white. The case is unique also because of the sheer volume of evidence implicating someone else for the crime for which Reed was sentenced to die, the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, in Bastrop, Texas. Supreme Court that the “the forensic case against Mr. ![]() So are several law enforcement officers, who told the U.S. Ted Cruz of Texas-are calling for the execution to be halted. Numerous lawmakers-with the support of Sen. 20, is unique not only because of the celebrities promoting his claims of innocence, from Oprah to Beyonce to Dr. The case of Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Nov. ![]()
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