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November 18, 2019

Texas Appeals Court Halts Execution of Rodney Reed
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In a stunning decision handed down Friday, the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals halted the execution of Rodney Reed, an African-American death
row prisoner who was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for a murder
he says he did not commit. In 1998, an all-white jury sentenced Reed to
die for the murder of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old white woman, after
his DNA was found inside her body. The two were having an affair at the
time of her death. But new and previously ignored details in the case
indicate that Stites's then-fiancé, a white police officer named Jimmy
Fennell, may in fact be responsible for the killing. We'll have more on
decision to halt Rodney Reed's execution later in the broadcast.


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