Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Texas DNA Procedure Fizzles Out

A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.

Rodney Reed, who garnered a 2023 victory at the US Supreme Court, failed to show Texas’ procedures for allowing post-conviction DNA testing are so inadequate that they violates Reed’s rights, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod said in an opinion.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of Reed’s habeas corpus petition.

Reed, a Black man, was convicted in 1998 by an all-White jury of the murder of Stacey ...