Rodney Reed’s Scheduled Execution Was Halted

Simply days away from dying by deadly injection, the Texas Court docket of Prison Appeals stopped Rodney Reed’s scheduled execution.

The information comes hours after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously beneficial Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delay Reed’s execution.

“Texas Court docket of Prison Appeals has granted #RodneyReed an indefinite keep of execution, which means he now not has an execution date,” the nonprofit Innocence Undertaking, which has been representing Reed, tweeted on Friday (Nov. 15).

Friday’s ruling was additionally posted to the Court docket of Prison Appeals’ web site.

“We’re extraordinarily relieved and grateful that the Texas Court docket of Prison Appeals (CCA) has issued a keep of execution for our consumer Rodney Reed,” learn a press release by the Innocence Undertaking. “The CCA has ordered the claims of Brady violations, false testimony and precise innocence in Mr. Reed’s case again to the trial court docket. This chance will permit for correct consideration of the highly effective and mounting new proof of Mr. Reed’s innocence.”

Reed’s execution was slated for November 20, 2019.

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This comes as nice information for Reed and his household, who has lengthy proclaimed his innocence within the 1996 rape and homicide of 19-year-old Stacey Stites.

Investigators reportedly suspected Stites’ then-fiancé, former police officer Jimmy Fennell because the offender. Stites was strangled along with her personal belt and her useless physique was left in a wooded space. Reed was convicted greater than 20 years in the past, by an all-white Texas jury, after his DNA was discovered inside Stites.

Within the 1998 case, Reed claimed he had been having a consensual sexual relationship with Stites, which was why his DNA was in her vaginal cavity.

New witnesses have since come ahead, together with the sufferer’s cousin and coworker, who had been allegedly conscious of Reed’s romantic relationship with Stites. There are additionally reviews that witnesses now say Fennell confessed to having “to kill my [n-word]-loving fiancée.”

Forensic scientists have additionally declared it’s scientifically unattainable that Reed was the assassin, based on the DNA. As well as, the homicide weapon was by no means examined for DNA.  

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With information that Fennell failed two lie detector exams through the investigation and was not trustworthy about his whereabouts on the evening of Stites’ dying, Reed’s case regained nationwide consideration with celebrities and greater than 2.9 million petitioners believing the dying row inmate was railroaded.

Beyoncé was the newest movie star to make the most of her social affect to help Reed, alongside Rihanna, Frequent, Meek Mill and Kim Kardashian-West. 

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“So grateful for the dedication and keenness of everybody who voiced their assist, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for his or her suggestion to concern a 120-day reprieve, and the courts for issuing a keep,” Kardashian-West tweeted on Friday.

West has been very vocal about her perception that Reed is “harmless.”

West visited Reed on the jail on Friday.

“Right this moment, I had the honour of assembly #RodneyReed in particular person and the privilege of sitting with him when he bought the information that the best court docket in Texas had issued a keep of execution and remanded the case again to the trial court docket for additional consideration,” West wrote in a prolonged Instagram put up. “Phrases can not describe the reduction and hope that swept over the room in that second. That hope had been constructing over the previous few weeks round Rodney’s case.”

“Right this moment, we rejoice. Tomorrow, we maintain working to show #RodneyReed’s innocence,” the Innocence Undertaking tweeted. “Keep concerned.”

The Innocence Undertaking, was based in 1992 to exonerate the wrongly convicted by way of DNA testing and to carry reform to the felony justice system.