People Magazine Investigates Recap for Is Rodney Reed Innocent? People Magazine Investigates: Is Rodney Reed Innocent? opens with Stacey Stites's life being profiled. She was the baby of the family and very athletic. She was outgoing and popular, especially with the boys. In the spring of 1995, she went to the
Monday's People Magazine Investigates episode explores the strangulation death of 19-year-old Stacey Stites and the conviction of Rodney Reed who has maintained his innocence since the beginning
Rodney Reed was convicted of the murder of Stacey Stites: People Magazine Investigates if he was innocent
Mon May 24, 2021 at 4:05pm ET
Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the killing of Stacey Stites. Pic credit: Texas Dept. of Corrections
People Magazine Investigates is examining a controversial case from Bastrop, Texas, which involved the abduction, rape, and murder of Stacey Stites, a young woman who was attacked while on her way to work in 1996.
Two years later, Rodney Reed was convicted of those crimes and was placed on death row; however, many believe that the police may have been affected by racial prejudice and may have imprisoned an innocent man.
The death penalty’s last gasp?
Quintin Jones death will be the first state execution in nine months. Quintin Jones during a recent interview with The New York Times from prison in Livingston, Texas. Video screengrab via NYT. Video by Jonah M. Kessel, Suleika Jaouad and Lindsay Crouse
May 18, 2021
It’s been 40 years since we’ve gone this long without a state execution.
Quintin is not the only person currently scheduled to be executed in Texas this year. So are four other people. Typically, Texas accounts for about half of the executions in the U.S., but this year it could account for all, or almost all, of them. Five of the six executions planned for 2021 are in this one state. Until just this year, Texas has had a law called the “law of parties” that allowed people not directly responsible for a murder to be executed for the crime, sort of guilt by association.