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Stacey Stites. None of the H-E-B employees whom police interviewed in 1996 after Stites was killed said that they ever saw Stites with Reed, said Board, who was among the first witnesses for the prosecution. Defense witnesses testified during a hearing this week that they saw Stites, an H-E-B employee, and Reed together at the grocery store before she was killed. One witness also said Stites had told her she was sleeping with a Black man. Reed, who is Black, was sentenced to be executed after he was convicted in 1998 of Stites strangulation death. Stites body was found by the side of a rural road in Bastrop County on April 23, 1996, with Reed s sperm inside her. ....