“They’re going to be executing an innocent man.” Death row inmate Rodney Reed maintains innocence weeks before execution:
Rodney Reed has spent the last 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, and he is scheduled to be executed in Texas in less than a month.
Reed has found support with local politicians and activists around the country, most famously including Kim Kardashian West. His supporters have called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stay his execution on Nov. 20. Benjet’s team maintains that Reed and Stites were having a consensual sexual relationship while she was engaged to her fiancé. They argue that this explains why Reed’s DNA matched the semen found in Stites’ body.During the 1997 trial, the prosecution argued that this evidence showed that Reed raped Stites, and it ultimately led to his conviction.
Reed’s defense team filed a federal lawsuit in August arguing that Reed’s civil rights have been violated because prosecutors and the state courts have repeatedly denied his DNA testing requests. “Jimmy Fennell was having a conversation with another classmate that sat near him,” Blackwell said. “He made a comment that if he ever found that his girlfriend was cheating on him that he would strangle her. And I looked over my shoulder at him and said, ‘Well, if you do that they’ll find four fingerprints all over her throat.’ And he said, ‘That’s where you don’t know…I’ll strangle her with a belt.
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