Texas Appeals Court Halts Execution Of Rodney Reed

Rodney Reed, the prisoner facing death row in Texas, was granted a stay of execution on Friday, five days before he was scheduled to be put to death for a murder verdict he has always claimed was wrong. The Texas court of criminal appeals blocked the execution indefinitely and sent the case back to the trial court in Bastrop county, where Reed was sentenced in 1998 for the murder of Stacey Stites, a woman he was dating, two years earlier.In court, Reed’s lawyer’s argued that fre