Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who was convicted of murdering a young grocery store clerk in 1996 but has long maintained his innocence, will have his appeal taken up by the Supreme Court.
just days before he was set to die
Separately, the Court of Criminal Appeals also stepped in, halting the execution and sending the case back to the trial court for his claims to be reviewed.Story continues Reed, who is Black, was found guilty by an all-white jury in the 1996 abduction, rape and slaying of Stites, a white grocery store worker in the central Texas town of Bastrop, east of Austin.
Semen was found inside Stites, and police matched the DNA to that of Reed, who was arrested a year later. Reed's sperm had previously been collected as part of an unrelated sexual assault investigation.
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