Rodney Reed is a Texas death row inmate. Rodney Reed, an African-American man from Bastrop County, Texas, who is currently on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, a white woman, waits on a decision from Bastrop County Judge Reva Towslee Corbett, the daughter of the judge who presided over Reed’s original trial and conviction, on new evidence presented at an evidentiary hearing in March. In October of 2005, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, … Wikipedia
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Although Rodney Reed has spent nearly the last eight years living a caged existence, subject to a determination by state courts that he shall die for Stites' murder, last month he returned to district court for a new hearing. www.alternet.org/wiretap/35704/
In May of 1998, a Bastrop County jury convicted Bastrop resident Rodney Reed of the murder of a young Giddings woman, Stacey Stites. www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-05-24/pols_f...
Chronicle , White agreed to review the autopsy findings, photos, and crime scene video, and render an informal opinion. www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-05-24/pols_f...
Reed's attorneys insist evidence unavailable to him during his 1998 trial casts serious doubt on his guilt of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, and strongly supports the defense theory that another man was the killer www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2006-03-31/pols_f...
On April 23, 1996, during the nighttime, Reed strangled and killed a 20-year-old white female during an aggravated sexual assault. www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/reedrodney.htm