[Criminal Justice News\Rodney Reed]
“Mr. Reed’s case recalls the sentiment then-Governor George W. Bush expressed in 1998 when he commuted the sentence against Henry Lee Lucas in the face of grave doubt about his guilt. ‘As a supporter of the death penalty . . . I feel a special obligation to make sure the State of Texas never executes a person for a crime they may not have committed,’ Bush said.”
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Governor Abbott
IS TEXAS ABOUT TO EXECUTE RODNEY REED FOR A MURDER PERPETRATED BY A POLICE OFFICER?
[Criminal Justice\ Rodney Reed]
Bryce Benjet, senior staff attorney at the Innocence Project and Reed’s lead counsel: “It should be clear to anyone who looks at the evidence in this case that Mr. Reed did not commit the sexual assault or murder of Stacey Stites. To execute Mr. Reed would be a grave miscarriage of justice that will create irreparable damage to public confidence in the accuracy and fairness of the Texas criminal justice system.”
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