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February 24, 2015

Texas: Court Stays Execution of Rodney Reed 
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A court in Texas has stayed the execution of an African-American man who
has been on death row for 17 years, after his attorneys presented new
evidence of his innocence. Rodney Reed was scheduled to die March 5 for
the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, a white woman with whom he says he was
having an affair. But Reed's attorneys say a new investigation has
uncovered evidence Stites was actually killed hours before state
prosecutors claimed. The new timeline appears to implicate Stites'
fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, a white former police officer now in prison for
sexually assaulting a woman while on duty.

 

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