Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181223:06:45:00
After an excution date was set for him today. >> the state argued the case has gone on for years. courts denied reed an appeal. the judge set reed's execution date for this january. >> by 2014, many independent observers began questioning reed's guilty verdict, and as his execution drew closer, public outcry grew. >> free rodney reed! free rodney reed! >> honesty, integrity, truth. that's all we want is the truth. that's what justice is about, the truth, and they in bastrop made a mockery of justice. >> so we at that point had roughly seven months to prepare the last round of appeals to save r...