RODNEY
RODNEY REED WON'T BE EXECUTED NEXT WEEK. JUST MOMENTS AGO -- THE TEXAS
COURT OF CRIMINAL
APPEALS ISSUED A STAY OF HIS
EXECUTION.
KVUE DEFENDERS REPORTER BRAD
STREICHER IS
HERE NOW -- TO EXPLAIN WHAT ALL
OF THIS MEANS.
MIKE AND TERRI -- THIS MEANS
REED WON'T BE EXECUTED NEXT WEDNESDAY AS PLANNED.
HE
HE WAS
HE WAS CONVICTED OF KILLING STACEY STITES IN BASTROP MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO.
THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
GRANTED THIS STAY BASED ON A NUMBER OF CLAIMS
FROM REED'S TEAM.
THEY'RE TEMPORARILY STOPPING HIS
EXECUTION ON
THE BASIS OF POSSIBLY CONCEALED
INFORMATION...
FALSE TESTIMONY... AND THE
CHANCE THAT
REED IS INNOCENT.
THIS COMES JUST HOURS AFTER THE
STATE PAROLE
BOARD RECOMMENDED TO DELAY THE
EXECUTION --
WHICH WOULD HAVE LEFT THE FINAL
DECISION UP TO
GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT.
FOR MONTHS NOW, REED'S FAMILY
HAS BEEN PROTESTING AND ASKING THE
GOVERNOR TO STOP THE
EXECUTION AND CLEAR REED'S NAME.
THEY SAY REED IS INNOCENT -- AND
THEY BELIEVE
STITES'S FIANCE ACTUALLY KILLED
HER.
HIS FAMILY RALLIED FROM 7 LAST
NIGHT -- TO 7 THIS MORNING
AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION --
ASKING FOR
GOVERNOR ABBOTT TO STOP THE
EXECUTION.
EXECUTION. ULTIMATELY, RODNEY'S THE ONE
WHO'S ADVOCATING FOR A NEW TRIAL FOR HIMSELF. I WOULD JUST LOVE
TO SEE HIM FREE AND AT HOME WITH
HIS FAMILY.
REED'S SUPPORTERS PUT HUNDREDS
OF LETTERS
OUTSIDE THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION
-- SAYING THEY
BELIEVE REED IS INNOCENT.
LAST NIGHT AND TODAY --
PROTESTERS IN WASHINGTON
D.C. STOOD OUTSIDE THE U-S
SUPREME COURT -- ASKING
THE JUSTICES TO TAKE ANOTHER
LOOK AT THIS CASE.
THE PROSECUTORS WHO ORIGINALLY
TRIED THE CASE SAY THE EVIDENCE SHOWS REED IS
GUILTY.
GUILTY.
GUILTY. SENIOR REPORTER TONY PLOHETSKI
HAS BEEN TAKING A LOOK AT THIS CASE...
TONY, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
FROM
FROM LAWMAKERS TO CELEBRITIES -- MANY PUBLIC FIGURES HAVE ASKED FOR REED'S
EXECUTION TO
BE STOPPED, INCLUDING KIM
KARDASHIAN.
SHE VISITED REED TODAY IN PRISON
IN LIVINGSTON --
NORTH OF HOUSTON.
SHE'S ONE OF REED'S VOCAL
SUPPORTERS -- AND WANTS
REED TO GET A NEW TRIAL.
SINCE TEXAS RESUMED EXECUTIONS
IN 1982 - ONLY 3 DEATH ROW INMATES HAVE HAD THEIR
SENTENCES
COMMUTED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
THERE ARE CURRENTLY 215 INMATES
ON DEATH ROW IN
TEXAS.
74 HAVE BEEN THERE MORE THAN 20
YEARS.
REED IS ONE OF SIX INMATES
CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR