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- A growing number of Republicans are demanding that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott call off the execution of Rodney Reed amid new evidence that casts doubt on his conviction.
- A public campaign to spare Reed's life now counts celebrities such as Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, and Oprah Winfrey, as well as the European Union's ambassador to the US.
- Reed, now 51, was convicted of raping and strangling 19-year-old Stacy Stites while she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
- Reed has long maintained that Stites was killed by her fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In his five years as Texas' governor, Republican Greg Abbott has overseen the execution of nearly 50 prisoners while only once sparing a condemned man's life, after a victims' family asked him to do so.
But Abbott — who has proudly referred to the death penalty as "Texas justice" — has never confronted such intense pressure to halt a lethal injection like he is facing in the case of Rodney Reed, who is set to die this month for a 1996 killing despite new evidence that even a growing number of Republican legislators say raises serious questions about his guilt.
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