Rodney Reed in Allan B. Polunsky Unit, West Livingston, Texas in 2015. Photo courtesy of Massoud Hayoun/ Al Jazeera.

"I had to kill my n*-loving fiancée."

Jimmy Fennell as told to prisonmate Arthur Snow

Yesterday, the legal team for Rodney Reed, who is set to be executed on November 20 for a crime he did not commit, filed an application for clemency with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The application requests that the Board recommend that Governor Abbott grant a commutation of Reed’s death sentence in light of the mounting new evidence of his innocence, including a new sworn affidavit from Arthur Snow, Jimmy Fennell's prisonmate, who heard him admit to the murder.

The application, filed by Reed’s attorneys with the Innocence Project, includes this affidavit along with enormous amounts of evidence that has disproven every aspect of the state’s case against Reed. Learn more about this case.

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Rodney’s high school senior portrait, age 18. Photo courtesy of the Reed Justice Initiative.

“Rodney was a Texas Golden Gloves champion two years in a row and was invited to the U.S. Olympic trials.”

Rodrick Reed, Rodney Reed's brother

Here’s a look at who Rodney Reed is today, and who he was before he was wrongfully convicted in 1998.

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Exoneree Huwe Burton and Staff Attorney Susan Friedman training together. Photos by Sameer Abdel-Khalek/Innocence Project.

“I’ll be up early to run 26.2 miles as a truly free man.”

Huwe Burton, Exonerated January 2019

This Sunday, Huwe Burton and his former attorney, Susan Friedman, will run side by side at the 2019 TCS New York City Marathon, the world’s largest marathon. Huwe, wrongly convicted of murdering his mother, was exonerated earlier this year after a 30-year fight to clear his name. Susan is honoring Huwe and his long journey to exoneration by raising money for the Innocence Project.

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Yusef Salaam (c) and Korey Wise (l) on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019 in New York. (Larry Busacca/AP Images for the Innocence Project)

"At the heart of [our case] were false confessions."

Yusef Salaam, Innocence Project Board member, exonerated 2002

Two of the Exonerated Five — Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise — joined Yusef’s mother, Sharonne Salaam, members of the New York State Senate and Assembly, the Innocence Project, the Legal Aid Society and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to unveil a package of criminal justice reforms that could serve as a national model for much-needed change across the country.

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Pennsylvania Innocence Project clients Larry Trent Roberts and Willie Veasy exonerated after 13 and 27 years, respectively; Midwest Innocence Project client Ricky Kidd exonerated after 23 years; Northern California Innocence Project client Jack Sagin exonerated after 34 years.