Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. He has long maintained that her fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was the real killer.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey StitesThe justices will take up the case in the fall
The issue is whether Reed waited too long to ask for DNA testing of items recovered from and near Stiles’ body, clothing and items found in or near Fennell’s truck Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors say Reed raped and strangled Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
Reed has long maintained that her fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was the real killer. Reed says Fennell was angry because Stites, who was white, was having an affair with Reed, who is Black. Fennell, who served time for sexual assault and was released from prison in 2018, has denied killing Stites.
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