“The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that the execution of Rodney Reed be delayed for 120 days. The seven-member parole board voted unanimously to recommend the reprieve for Reed, who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Supporters of Reed say newly uncovered…
“For 20 years, Rodney Reed, an African-American man, has been fighting his conviction and proclaiming his innocence for the 1996 rape and murder of a 19-year-old white woman, Stacey Stites. Since the Texas courts sentenced him to death over two decades ago, substantial evidence has emerged implicating Stites’s then-fiancé, a white police officer named Jimmy…
“Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday that the federal government is resuming the death penalty after nearly two decades. The execution of five death row prisoners was immediately ordered beginning in December. There are currently 62 prisoners on federal death row, including white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine black worshipers at the historic Emanuel…