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Revision as of 16:14, 7 November 2019
Rodney Reed (born December 22, 1967) is an American jail inmate who has resided on Texas Death Row since May 1998. He was sentenced to death for the murder by strangulation and rape of Stacey Stites in the town of Bastrop, Texas on April 23, 1996.
His death sentence remains hugely controversial due to the fact that much of the prosecuting case relied on his semen being found inside Stites' body. In his defence, Reed stated that he had consensual sex with Stites on the day before her death but expert witnesses stated that sperm could not have survived inside her body for that long,[1] despite doctors agreeing that sperm can survive for up to seven days.[2]
He is the subject of the documentary film State vs. Reed, produced by Frank Bustoz and Ryan Polomski.
His execution is scheduled to take place on November 20, 2019.
References
- ^ Burns, Catherine (2019-11-06). "Prisoner backed by Rihanna 'scared' of execution". Retrieved 2019-11-06.
- ^ "Trying to get pregnant". nhs.uk. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2019-11-06.