Above the law

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed


By: Caitlin Adams

I have a bit more to say about Lisa Tanner's comments that were aired as part of Adam Racusin's KEYE Austin story on 4/25/13 (I bet none of you are surprised!). The Attorney General's office refused an interview for the recent program, so her interview was from 2001. 

In addressing a question concerning the two beer cans found near Ms. Stites's body, this is Ms. Tanner's response:


Drop the Charges! No Fourth Trial for Tim McKinney!

Sign the petition for Tim McKinney: Drop the Charges!


Monday, April 29, 2013

**PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!!   Please sign this petition for Tim McKinney! Tim spent 10 years on Tennessee's death row and could be facing yet another capital trial for a crime he did not commit...


Questions Linger Over Central Texas Man's Death Sentence


By: Adam Racusin
KEYE TV
Friday, April 26, 2013

Click here to watch the video broadcast of this story.

Arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a teenager. The murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites sent shockwaves through central Texas. But, all along, the man behind bars for her murder has said he didn't do it.

Rodney Reed believes new challenges to his case could support his claims of innocence.

Reed has been on death row for 15 years living out a nightmare.

KEYE TV asked him if he killed Stacey Stites. "No, not at all, not at all," said Reed.

A black man convicted by a jury his attorneys claim never got the chance to hear all the evidence -- evidence they believe could set him free. "My innocence, my family and my supporters, they are all behind me," said Reed. "I have to continue to fight."


Catastrophe Justice


Jeffrey Havard
By: Mark Clements

We know just how unfair the criminal justice system can be, but some cases stand out in showing how our entire criminal justice system is broken and how it is a calamity toward the poor.

Take the work of forensic pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne. He worked mainly in Mississippi, performing thousands of autopsies and describing his findings as an expert witness in trials. Hayne worked between 1980 and the late 2000s. According to the New York Times, “For most of that time, Dr. Hayne performed about 1,700 autopsies annually, more than four for every day of the year and nearly seven times the maximum caseload recommended by the National Association of Medical Examiners.”

Hayne has since been barred from performing autopsies in Mississippi.


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