DNA Testing Conducted Four Years After Arkansas Black Man Was Executed Finds Genetic Material Belonging to Someone Else
Four years after the state of Arkansas executed Ledell Lee for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese, new DNA testing has revealed genetic material at the scene of the crime belongs to someone other than Lee. In January 2020, the Innocence Project and ACLU requested new DNA testing in Lee’s case. The city of Jacksonville…