it is tough stuff amy: i went to go to a victim of the georgetown police officer jimmy fennell. nnell was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping her after he took her into police custody. this is a clip from a plea for justice of, alere being interviewed on the show w "crime watch daily."" >> he just kept telliling me too shut up. he asked me d dance for h him s that i told him no. en i toldd him no, he got mad. he grabbed me and s slammed me p against the back of the car where the trunk is. i kept telelling him to stop and he kept telling me to shut up, that i knew i liked it. he told me he would hunt me down when he got out of prison and coming. amy: fennell was convicted. close he pled guilty to kidnappingng in such chaharges relalated to thatt a arrest. again, the texas law e enforcemt invevestigation of jimimmy fennl arising ouout of that actually showed that was a pattern of conduct. so this was not an isolated incident. defense washat the saying to the jury, everything that we suspected whom we first took this case has proven to be true. amy: where is he

that implicates jimmy fennell and not runny. -- not rodney reed.: how do you get this bill tested? >> we have presented this to numerous courts. we are in the federal court system asking for that dna testing. we're continuing to pursue that. and we certainly encourage the state, the district attorney, the ag to really look at this case because i think when you look at these facts, the only conclusion you can reach is that rodney reed did not commit the crime and somebody else did. amy: i want to turn to rodney reed in his own words. here he is speaking in an interview with the popular daytime tv host dr. phil, who visiteted him in prisoson on deh row. this aired in september. >> i am absolutely innocent of this case. i absolutely had nothing to do with stacy's death. i want to be a father to my kids. i want to be a grandfather to my grandchildren. sonnt to be able to be the to look after my motother and a brother to my brothers.s. i wawant to be a part of my famy and my friends lives again. amy: so that is rodney reed. rodrick, we just have about 3

jimmy fennell is still prison innocent unless he is found guguilty.as denied her a that he murdered his fiancee in the 1990's. many people maintain rodney reed did it. that said, a number of incriminating statements, the fact he told a fellow prisoner that he had killed her, the fact she was afraid of him, it all paints a fairly cocompelling picture. it is certainly compelling enough picture that it has caused many, many people to say, well, we don't really know and if anything, executing someone on this evidence is a potential terrible travesty. amy: pretty he actually be put to deathth with all of this evidence?? >> absolutely. in fact, rodney reed is not the first person to be put to death in texas or in other states despite fairly compelling evidence. that is where i think this case is a teachable moment for all of us when it comes to the death penaltlty and the legal system that surrounds it. one wowould think that t the vey compelling evidence of f innocee would stop in executution, but over time, congress and various state legislatures and the

. >> reporter: his attorney said evidence points to jimmy fennell. ed about this in an interview. >> she said that if jimmy found out we were together that he would kill me. i just took it as a figure of speech. i didn't take it literally. >> that is clear motive for him to have killed stacy and ultimately having rodney reed take the fall for the murder. >> reporter: it has gathered celebrity attention. kim kardashian and others are taking action. reed's lawyer said the murder investigation is full of holes. they say the time of death is inaccurate and police never searched the apartment where fennell and stites lived together. the bush to exonerate reed is a circus that was rejected by appeals courts. >> he is a garden variety sociopath and convinced his lawyers and lots of other people that he's just a poor, unfairly charged black man being railroaded to the death chamber. >> reporter: they maintain rodney reed is guilty and deserves the death penalty. they pointed out that reed was alleged to have assaulted six other women. there's also this. jimmy

proven reed now thanks he and stites had a discreet, intimate relationship and that this man, jimmy fennell, then stites' fiance and a police officer, is the real killer. >> the evidence points in that direction. >> reporter: the evidence points at you. >> that was created from the state's narrative of this whole situation. >> reporter: reed's lawyers point to developments since his 1998 conviction, witnesses who say fennell made racist and threatenin statements about the affair forensic analysis raising doubts about basic facts like the time and place stites was killed and a former prison inmate says fennell bragged about killing stites while fennell served a ten-year prison sentence for improper sexual activity with another woman. >> it's just plain ludicrous to buy into this rodney reed circus >> reporter: fennell's attorney denies reed's allegations. >> he's got great lawyers, very creative they keep coming up with witnesses out of the woodwork >> never have we thought that jimmy was guilty of murdering my sister, ever >> reporter: the texas attorney general's office says after reviews

. >> reporter: benjet says evidence points to another man, jimmy fennell an ex-cop and stites' former fiancÉe. after stites's murder, he served ten years in prison for improper sexual contact. fellow inmate arthur snow says fennell confessed to the murder, but fennell's attorney bob phillips says the jury got it right 21 years ago. >> it will be a stunning and horrific injustice if rodney reed is granted a new trial. >> reporter: celebrities like rihanna are asking texas governor greg abbott to pause the execution. >> all we're asking for is just our fair treatment, a fair trial. >> reporter: a bipartisan group of state lawmakers here at the capital has asked the governor to pause the execution and consider the new evidence. i reached out to governor greg abbott's office but have not heard back. norah, the u.s. supreme court could chime in on this case next week. >> o'donnell: all right. omar, thank you. coming up, a royal wardrobe overhaul by decree of the queen. mornings were made for better things than rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis. when considering another treatment,

interview, reed said he lied because stites was engaged to a small town white police officer named jimmy fennel. >> it wam up she was seeing a police officer. that's why we tried to be as discreet as possible. she said if jimmy found out we were together, he would kill me. >> reporter: fennel's lawyer -- denying first, then admitting to knowing the victims. >> oh, that stacy stites. i'm having a torrid sexual affair with her. just in that little capsule of the life and times of rodney reed, you can see what a liar, what a rapist, what a dangerous human being that he is. >> reporter: reed's supporters say he's never been convicted of those other crimes and the allegations are being wrongly used to justify the execution. >> a young white woman was murdered, and a black man was convicted of it. that is their case, and they're taking it all the way to the execution table. >> reporter: stacy stites' body was found in these woods about seven miles outside of bastrop, texas. her family hasn't said much in the weeks leading up to the scheduled execution of rodney reed, but one of her sisters tells cnn

. >> reporter: reed claims stites was skilled by her fiance jimmy fennell upset she was having an affairently telling abc news, his client was not involved, saying not based on any of the credible evidence or physical evidence or forensic evidence. he called it a concoction of creative, brilliant lawyers trying to save a condemned man. attorneys for reed say the prosecution's case was based on flawed evidence and that they have new witness testimony that could support reed's claim of innocence. experts say the review by the trial court could take up to a year. remember, he was on death row for more than 20 years. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. >>> let's change gears and time for weather and rob marciano in see that havinter phomalampus. look at the kids at baylor university. you know, this is a christian university so the signs here good kids here. so psyched about this undefeated season so far and here come the sooners from oklahoma. these kids outside. unbelievable. all right. i have some cool video to show you when it was 12 degrees. frozen lake water there a

reed and points to jimmy fennell. >> reporter: fennell was initially a suspect in stites' murder, buthis attorney, bob phillips, says his client is innocent. >> jimmy loved her. he was going to marry her in three weeks. >> reporter: fennell later served ten years in prison for unrelated kidnapping and improper sexual contact in 2007. >> he pled guiltiy, did his time, he's now out of prison. >> reporter: now an inmate named arthur snow, who was incarcerated with fennell and a former member of the arian brotherhood, is coming to reed's defense. he claims fennell confessed to killing stites because she was, quote, sleeping around with a black man behind his back. fennell's attorney says snow's story is fiction. reed's brother, roderick, told "cbs this morning" this new evidence may be enough to save his brother's life. there's been testimony from people who are in prison. do you think that needs to be brought in in this case now? >> that testimony from mr. show needs to be brought in. all avenues need to be traveled in order to get to the truth. to get justice for stacey stites and my br