As Reed’s case continues to wind through the court system, it underlines troubling questions about Texas’ continued use of the death penalty, even as most of the country has turned away from executions.
by the Death Penalty Information Center. The organization wrote that the cases, all in Texas, raised “troubling questions as to whether the state is executing the most morally culpable individuals for the worst of the worst crimes or the most vulnerable prisoners and prisoners who were provided the worst legal process.”
Reed’s case now heads to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, which could either disagree with Langley’s findings or affirm them and clear the way for another execution date. “If a new jury heard the overwhelming evidence of Rodney Reed’s innocence, it would have reasonable doubts,” said Jane Pucher, a senior staff attorney with the Innocence Project who is representing Reed.
The erosion of confidence in Reed’s guilt over the past two decades points to a growing distrust in the ultimate punishment. Prosecutors’ case against Reed contained many of the red flags that are often hallmarks of wrongful convictions, from
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