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Celebrities, Texas lawmakers, millions of petitioners seek halt to Reed’s execution

By John Seasly | November 7, 2019

Texas lawmakers, the European Union, celebrities and more than two million petitioners have asked Gov. Greg Abbott to halt the November 20 execution of inmate Rodney Reed, amid growing evidence of his innocence.

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Rodney Reed witness: Fiance killed victim because she was sleeping with black man

By John Seasly | October 31, 2019

In a flurry of new papers seeking to avert Rodney Reed’s execution next month, his attorneys have submitted a new affidavit from a prisoner who says Stacey Stites’s fiance admitted in prison that he had killed Stites because she was having an affair with Reed.