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Genetic material from 1993 killing revealed years after another man executed for crime, groups say

Genetic material from 1993 killing revealed years after another man executed for crime, groups say Aris Folley © Arkansas Department of Correction Genetic material from 1993 killing revealed years after another man executed for crime, groups say DNA testing has revealed genetic material from an unknown male in the evidence collected from an Arkansas murder scene years after another man was executed for the crime, civil rights groups say. Ledell Lee was executed in 2017 after being convicted of killing his neighbor Debra Reese in 1993. Lee s family sought additional testing in the case last year, and lawyers for his family and the city of Jacksonville recently received new DNA reports, according to the Innocence Project and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Another man s DNA found on murder weapon, four years after execution

New DNA evidence could prove that a man was wrongly executed for murder, activists say

New DNA Test Casts Doubt on Guilty Verdict and Execution of Black Man in 2017

New DNA Test Casts Doubt on Guilty Verdict and Execution of Black Man in 2017 Ledell Lee was sentenced to death and executed, but an ACLU-sponsored DNA test revealed that prints on the murder weapon didn’t match. Ledell Lee maintained his innocence until his execution in 2017. (The Innocence Project) Ledell Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese. Four years ago, in 2017, he was one of four inmates executed by the state of Arkansas before it had exhausted its supply of lethal injection chemicals. The 51-year-old maintained his innocence up to the day he was executed, according to THV11. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Innocence Project filed a lawsuit on behalf of Lee’s sister, Patricia Young, which resulted in the city of Jacksonville, AR ruling that new tests could be run on the evidence in his case.

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