Supporters of Rodney Reed, a Bastrop man who has been imprisoned on death row for over two decades, gathered at the Bastrop County Courthouse on Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of his case before the next hearing scheduled for May.
During the rally, a number of speakers involved with Reed’s case or efforts against the death penalty were featured. These included Delia Perez Meyer, whose brother, Louis Castro Perez, is currently on death row; Gloria Rubac, an organizer with the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, along with former death row inmate Pamela Perillo; and Rodrick and Sandra Reed, the brother and ...