Entries tagged with “Jimmy Fennell”

Mar 25, 2026

Three U.S. Supreme Court Justices Decry ​“Inexplicable” Texas Refusal to Test DNA in Rodney Reed Case

Texas pros­e­cu­tors sent Rodney Reed to death row for the 1996 mur­der of Stacey Stites, whom they argued was stran­gled with her own leather belt. Yet for over a decade, state offi­cials have fought Mr. Reed’s requests to test that belt for the killer’s DNA. In 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Reed’s law­suit seek­ing the test was time­ly, and last year it struck down Texas’ attempts to block DNA test­ing in two oth­er cap­i­tal cas­es. However, on March 23, the Court…