TX death row inmate Rodney Reed's semen was found inside a 12 year old girl

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(CNN)The family of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed November 20, told NBC Nightly News they'll keep fighting for him "until the end."

"I'm hoping that we get a fair and just judge, and my baby will be home," Reed's mother, Sandra Reed, told the network in an interview. "I'm holding on to it. I have to."
Rodney Reed has spent more than 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. He insists he's innocent and his attorneys, who are seeking a new trial, say recent witness accounts and new evidence exonerates Reed. A former prison inmate claims someone else confessed to the murder that sent Reed to prison.

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Reed was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacy Stites due in large part to overwhelming DNA evidence and is set to be executed by the state in less than two weeks, on November 20.

However, Reed, a black man who believes he is a victim of racial bias, claims he did not murder Stites, but was having a secret consensual sexual affair with the teen. When her fiancé Jimmy Fennell, a white police officer, found out, he killed Stites, Reed’s defense attorneys have theorized.

When Reed was convicted, it was determined Stites was strangled to death by her own belt while on her way to a work at a HEB grocery story in Bastrop, Texas, in April 1996. Evidence also determined that Stites, who was also vaginally raped, was anally raped while being strangled to death. DNA from semen found in the teen’s vagina and anus matched that of Reed’s.

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Reed has been connected to the rapes of five other females, including a 12-year-old girl.

According to court documents, the victim, only identified publicly as A.W., says she was blindfolded, gagged, beaten, and orally, vaginally, and anally raped while she was home alone. “The foreign DNA from A.W.’s rape kit was compared to Reed; Reed was not excluded and only one in 5.5 billion people would have the same foreign DNA profile from A.W.’s rape kit,” the court doc outlined.

As noted by Breitbart News’ Brandon Darby, Reed has not been exonerated from the rape of the 12-year-old and a number of other women, but such cases were likely not pursued because Reed was served with the death penalty.

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The case surrounding death row inmate Rodney Reed has gained national attention since celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Rihanna have come to the convict’s defense, requesting the governor of Texas to stay Reed’s execution.

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