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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.