Protesters filled the streets marching around the governor's mansion in Austin on Saturday afternoon, shouting “Free Rodney Reed,” on behalf of a Bastrop man currently on death row.
Rodney Reed was convicted for the 1996 murder and sexual assault of Stacey Stites in Bastrop after DNA evidence linked him to Stites. However, Reed has said he is innocent, and that he and Stites had a secret affair. Reed and his attorneys have been raising questions about the DNA evidence linking him to the murder and other untested evidence.
In July, Bastrop County District Attorney Bryan Goertz filed a motion to set an ...