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Tina Strawn shared the image I reposted on IG of Rodney Reed.
Rodney Reed. Rodney is an innocent black man on death row. His execution, his death, is scheduled for Nov. 20th. I visited the Innocence Project website to read more about Rodney’s case in the article “10 Facts You Need to Know About Rodney Reed, Who is Scheduled for Execution on November 20.”
Tina Strawn shared the image I reposted on IG of Rodney Reed.
Rodney Reed. Rodney is an innocent black man on death row. His execution, his death, is scheduled for Nov. 20th. I visited the Innocence Project website to read more about Rodney’s case in the article “10 Facts You Need to Know About Rodney Reed, Who is Scheduled for Execution on November 20.”
The following 10 facts are explained:
- The murder weapon has never been tested for DNA evidence.
- The state’s three forensic experts have admitted on the record to errors in their testimony, which led to Reed’s conviction and death sentence.
- Renown forensic pathologists including Michael Baden, M.D., Werner Spitz, M.D., LeRoy Riddick, M.D., and Cyril Wecht, M.D. have all concluded that Reed’s guilt is medically and scientifically impossible.
- Rodney Reed and Stacey Stites were having a consensual sexual relationship.
- For months after the murder, Jimmy Fennell was the prime suspect in the case.
- Fennell’s best friend at the time of the crime, Bastrop Sheriff’s Officer Curtis Davis, has now revealed that Fennell gave an inconsistent account of where he was on the night of the murder.
- Two witnesses have come forward in recent weeks and submitted signed affidavits that add to the mounting evidence against Jimmy Fennell.
- Fennell later served a 10-year prison term for a sex crime and kidnapping. Law enforcement records also document a pattern of violence against women perpetrated by Fennell.
- This case was racially charged: Reed, a black man, was found guilty of murdering Stites, a white woman by an all-white jury.
- A confession by Jimmy Fennell has come to light.
The overrepresentation of black men on death row is unjust. Further, why are we as a nation, full of people who claim to be pro-life, still administering the death penalty? How are we not moved to action to end this vile practice of executing image bearers? I’ve heard numerous people say that the system isn’t broken because it is functioning just as it was designed to do, an insatiable beast that devours the marginalized, depriving them of justice, while the privileged live comfortable lives, unaffected by the rampant systemic injustice. Woe to those of us who are at ease and who feel secure but do not grieve over the ruin around us (Amos 6). We have more than enough resources to transform the current system to follow a restorative justice model, but that’s another post for another day.
A message for Gov. Abbott (@govabbott): I urge you, in light of the evidence, to grant clemency to Rodney Reed. Rodney Reed is an innocent man.
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