Rodney Reed will not be executed next week — and he'll be allowed to present new evidence of his innocence in court
Reed was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection November 20th, but on Friday, November 15th, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parolesto delay Reed’s execution by 120 days. Just hours later, the state’s highest criminal court took that recommendation, allowing Reed’s legal team to present new evidence of his innocence.
Reed has spent 22 years in prison after being convicted for the 1996 murder of Stacy Stites, though Reed has maintained his innocence and other revelations have bolstered his claim over the years. The first suspect in Stites’ death was her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, but Reed became the primary suspect after police found his spermatozoa inside Stites’ body. Ultimately, Reed’s conviction hinged on now-discredited science that sperm could only survive for 24 hours after discharge .
, the trial was weighted by ugly racist assumptions that Reed, a black man, must have raped and murdered Stites, a white woman.
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