Death row inmate Rodney Reed was convicted of raping and killing 19-year-old Stacey Stites in April 1996. He maintains his innocence weeks before his scheduled execution. More tonight from RonAllenNBC on NBCNightlyNews.
Supporters of death row inmate Rodney Reed at the Bastrop County Justice Center in 2014.The case has been receiving national attention after celebrities includingReed is not only maintaining his innocence, he claims that Fennell, Stites' then-fiance, is the real killer.Stites' family insists that none of that is true, and that she and Fennell were happy and weeks away from getting married.
Reed's legal team also has a new affidavit from an inmate who claims Fennell confessed to killing Stites. Fennel had served 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of kidnapping and improper sexual activity with a person in custody. The case involved a woman from a domestic disturbance call he responded to when he was an officer with the Georgetown Police, according to The Austin Chronicle.
Reed and his lawyers also have tried to get the courts to consider new analysis of forensic evidence from the crime scene. They want as many as 40 items tested with modern DNA techniques, including the murder weapon, a belt that investigators say the killer used to strangle Stites. Texas courts have said no, ruling the evidence has been too contaminated this many years later.
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