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and take a harder look at the evidence. we ve been covering the rodney reed case for years. ever since his last scheduled execution back in early 2015. even back then there were serious issues surrounding his conviction. in 1998 rodney reed was convicted of the murder and rape of 19-year-old stacey stites, a crime he says he did not commit. i traveled to the prison in livingston, texas, where reed was being held weeks before his scheduled execution in 2015. by then he had spent nearly half his life behind bars. i had nothing to do with this case. you did not kill stacey stites? i had nothing to do with this case. nothing at all. absolutely nothing at all. stacey was found dead on the side of a country road in the small town of texas in april 1996. a medical examiner ruled she d died as a result of asphyxia due
to leg tour strangulation associated with sexual assault. and a dna sample was obtained from semen found inside the body. investigators initially suspected stites s fiance, a police officer in a neighboring town. finel was the last person to see her alive at the night of her death and his truck was found down the road from stites body. finel said she was driving to work to a super market as she normally did. finel was eventually cleared when the dna was not a match, and investigators concluded he couldn t have killed her based on the timeline he provided. a year later police looked into a man with multiple accusations of sexual assault, rodney reed. the dna was a match. they brought him in for questioning. the girl is stacey stites.
innocent and that it was rodney reed that killed stacey stites. all in reached out to the texas governor s office and the county district attorney and received now response. the texas attorney general office told nbc news that after reviews by more than 20 judges it s time, quote, to see that justice is done at last. i want to bring in trymaine lee for the latest. i understand lee s lawyers have appeals and motions filed pending seven legal tracts. they have appeals in state, federal and supreme court. including one in state court that seeks to invalidate the judge that signed the order trying to invalidate that order because the judge was temporary. if that order was granted he would get a new trial. there s a lot of pressure being put on governor greg abbott, but the only thing greg abbott can do unilaterally is give a 30-day reprieve. the state also requires a 90-day notice. which would essentially give rodney reed 120-day reprieve. now, the body that actually has all the power
going to be charged and murdered for a crime he didn t commit. reporter: when rodney reed was convicted 21 years ago of the rape and murder of stacey stites, the prosecution s entire case rested on two main pillars. first a time line provided by her fiance, jimmy finnell. second the traces of rodney reed s semen found in her body. reed was sentenced to death. he s now scheduled for execution november 20th. but reed s family and his legal team say he s innocent and that they have the compelling evidence and witnesses to prove it. every aspect of this case has been disproven and new evidence continues to come out. reporter: the innocent project took up rodney reed s case in 2012 and successfully won a stay of execution three years later. among the evidence they presented, new witnesses who said rodney reed and stacey stites were in a consensual,