In a sensational crime case in the US, a court has stopped the state of Texas with the scheduled execution of a convicted murderer for the time being. The the organization the Innocence Project, which represents the Affected Rodney Reed announced on Friday.
protesters had demanded on Wednesday, in Texas Bastrop for the release and a new method for the 51-Year-old. Politicians, celebrities, including Reality Star Kim Kardashian – and the EU Ambassador to the US had turned on in the case. A Petition received more than 2.9 million signatures. Rodney Reed sits, according to the Innocence Project since 1998 for the murder of a young woman in 1996 in the death cell. Next Wednesday he should be executed.
“Significant doubts about his guilt”
The EU Ambassador in the United States, Stravros Lambrindis, had called on the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to grant a pardon to Reed. The evidence in the case, cast “substantial doubt as to his guilt,” wrote Lambrindis on 30. October in a letter.
Reed protested his innocence. That his DNA was found on the murder victims, he explains with an affair with the woman and consensual Sex on the day of the murder. His lawyers are asking that the murder weapon will be checked at the DNA of Reed point. They point to witnesses, the back of the fiance of the woman as the alleged perpetrator in focus. The wrong man was in the death cell, had a lawyer Bryce Benjet said on Tuesday. (scl/sda)
Created: 16.11.2019, 03:32 PM