U.S. Supreme Court to review Texas death row inmate’s DNA-testing appeal
FILE - Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 21, 2022.The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case brought by Rodney Reed, convicted in Bastrop County in 1998 of capital murder, over his attempts to win new DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.
The statute of limitations on such a decision is two years. But Reed’s appeal of the ruling took years to progress, and when it did, the federal appeals courts said it was too late for them to decide anything.How many innocent people are executed in Texas? Melissa Lucio case spotlights a troubling list
Rodney Reed, shown at a court hearing in 2017, has maintained his innocence in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites.Wednesday against a wave of bipartisan opposition. Lucio would become the first Hispanic woman executed in modern history.
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