Innocence
,Race
,Oct 22, 2021
A Bastrop, Texas trial court heard closing arguments October 18, 2021 on whether Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed should be granted a new trial in the April 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. The argument concluded the adversarial …
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Race
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Lethal Injection
,Apr 26, 2021
NEWS (4/21 – 4/23/21) — Texas: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled against Texas death-row prisoners in three separate capital appeals. On April 23, a split panel of the court …
Innocence
,New Voices
,Oct 15, 2019
The case of Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed (pictured, right), who is facing execution in Texas on November 20, 2019 despite powerful evidence of …
Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,May 06, 2020
Pervis Payne (pictured) was young, black, and, he says, in the wrong place at the wrong time. The son of a minister, he is on death row in Tennessee, convicted of the horrific murders of a white woman and her two-…
Innocence
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,New Voices
,Jul 22, 2014
In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, eight retired judges recently asked the Court to review the case of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed. Reed is scheduled to be executed in January 20…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 24, 2020
NEWS (2/24/20): On February 24, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed’s petition for writ of certiorari, declining to review his case.
Innocence
,Race
,Dec 20, 2021
Prosecutors hid favorable evidence from Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed during his 1998 trial for the murder of Stacey Stites and then argued for his execution claiming that the evidence did not exist, Reed’s…
Innocence
,Race
,New Voices
,Sep 17, 2019
Supporters of Rodney Reed (pictured) are calling for a new trial for the Texas death-row prisoner sentenced to death in 1998 by an all-white jury in a racially charged trial. On September 10, 2019, Reed’s family a…
Innocence
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Apr 20, 2023
On April 19, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6 – 3) in Reed v. Goertz that a Texas death row prisoner could continue his pursuit of DNA testing that a lower court had blocked. The Court held that Rodney Reed’s (pictured) civil rights…
Innocence
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,May 05, 2022
In a case legal experts say could redress a miscarriage of justice or institutionalize it, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the Texas federal courts’ refusal to permit DNA testing of crime-scene evidenc…
Innocence
,Race
,United States Supreme Court
,Oct 12, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument on October 11, 2022 on whether a Texas death-row prisoner was time-barred from obtaining federal review of the state’s refusal to grant him DNA testing that could prove his innocence because h…
Innocence
,Race
,Jul 23, 2021
Lawyers for Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed (pictured) presented four days of testimony in a Bastrop County courthouse in an attempt to establish his innocence of the murder of Stacey Stites…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Jun 30, 2023
On June 28, 2023, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) denied Rodney Reed’s (pictured) application for habeas relief and rejected Mr. Reed’s claim that prosecutors at his 1998 trial illegally presented false tes…
Innocence
,Clemency
,Upcoming Executions
,Nov 15, 2019
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Rodney Reed (pictured) on November 15, 2019, directing the Bastrop County district court to review Reed’s claims that prosecutors suppressed exculpatory evidence and pres…
Innocence
,Race
,Nov 02, 2021
A Texas district court judge has recommended that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) deny death-row prisoner Rodney Reed’s innocence claim and allow his conviction and death sentence to stand for the 1996 …
Religion
,United States Supreme Court
,Apr 10, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the case of Jewish death-row prisoner Randy Halprin (pictured), who was tried and sentenced to death in Texas before a judge who made anti-Semitic an…
Innocence
,Feb 17, 2015
Attorneys for Rodney Reed, a death row inmate in Texas, have filed a petition in a county court with new evidence supporting an alternate theory of the crime th…
New Voices
,May 12, 2022
Saying that recent events in Texas’ attempt to execute death-row prisoner Melissa Lucio had shaken his faith in the criminal legal system, an influential Republican state legislator has said that he would now supp…
