Ledell Lee, a Black Man Was Executed Because Arkansas Didn’t Want the Lethal Injection to Expire
Now a different man’s DNA is found on the murder weapon
I am an innocent man — Ledell Lee
Ledell Lee was executed in April 2017, a few months after Donald Trump ruled America like a mad man; his appointee to the Supreme Court, Neil M. Gorsuch‘s vote made sure that Ledell Lee is executed by lethal injection.
Four years after Ledell Lee was executed, here comes evidence of a new DNA present in the murder weapon that killed Debra Reese on the night of February 9, 1993. She was strangled and beaten with a tire thumper.
Who is Ledell Lee?
After being charged in the murder of Reese, Lee became a suspect in other crimes. He was accused of three sexual assaults, and convicted of two, the 1991 rape of a Jacksonville woman and the 1990 rape of a Jacksonville teenager.
He was also prosecuted for the November 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Christine Lewis, a mother, in November 1989. Lewis was abducted from her home. She was later raped, strangled, and eventually killed. Her body was found inside a closet at an abandoned home.Lee was tried in 1994; the jury could not reach a verdict. After Lee was convicted and sentenced to death for Reese’s murder, county prosecutors decided against retrying him for the alleged murder of Lewis. — Source: Wikipedia
I am not here to defend Ledell Lee, but there is something wrong with the judicial system when the only reason people are killed on Death Row is that the drugs for the lethal injection will soon expire.
We all remember the O.J. Simpson double murder case, and Ledell Lee was the sacrificial lamb to appease white people’s sentiment over a black man being acquitted in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman;
Mr. Lee’s first trial resulted in a hung jury.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer complained about how the state had established its execution schedule because of the approaching expiration date of Arkansas’s stock of midazolam. — The New York Times
As if Arkansas can’t wait to kill another black man.
“Today is a shameful day for Arkansas, which is callously rushing the judicial process by treating human beings as though they have a sell-by date,” Amnesty International said in a statement.
With the new evidence of DNA present on the murder weapon that doesn't belong to Ledell Lee, an unknown man is still out there in the streets of Arkansas, while Ledell Lee had since died in the hands of a failed American justice system.
