Rodney Reed, a long-time Texas death row inmate, will be able to test DNA that he believes will clear him, following a decision by the Supreme Court.
But the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reversed the appellate ruling.
A sign that says"Rodney Reed is innocent" is displayed outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Oct. 11, 2022. The Supreme Court ruled on April 19, 2023, that Reed should have a chance to test for DNA that he believes will help clear his name. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented."If there is a mitigating factor to today's decision," Thomas wrote, it's that the outcome"is no barrier to the prompt execution of Reed's lawful sentence."Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors say Reed raped and strangled Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
Reed has long maintained that Stites' fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was the real killer. Reed says Fennell was angry because Stites, who was white, was having an affair with Reed, who is Black. Fennell, who served time for
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