Further DNA testing denied in Rodney Reed case

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) — The state’s top criminal appeals court affirmed on Wednesday a lower trial court’s denial of further DNA testing of numerous pieces of evidence in the case of death-row inmate Rodney Reed.
Reed’s defense team sought post-conviction testing of more than 40 items related to the killing of Stacey Stites. A Bastrop jury convicted Reed of capital murder and sentenced him to death for strangling, sexually assaulting and dumping Stites along a rural