Favorite Kevin Gannon, a retired detective sergeant with the New York Police Department, spent just 10 minutes looking at official documents related to the case of Rodney Reed — slated for execution in Texas on March 5 — before concluding that something was very, very wrong. It was October 2014 and Gannon was working as…
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Cameras Aren’t a Miracle Cure for Police Brutality
Favorite At the August rally protesting Eric Garner’s death in Staten Island, one of his cousins expressed relief that there existed video footage of the incident in which Garner was killed, when the 43-year-old was approached by a plainclothes police officer on suspicion of selling bootleg cigarettes and subsequently placed in a chokehold. “For the…
Texas Denies DNA Testing in Death Row Case of Rodney Reed
Favorite A Texas judge on Tuesday ruled that no additional DNA testing is warranted in the case of condemned inmate Rodney Reed, sentenced to die for the 1996 murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Since Reed’s 1998 conviction for Stites’ murder, new evidence has emerged suggesting that investigators failed to sufficiently examine Stites’ fiance Jimmy Fennell—a Texas…