Death row inmate Rodney Reed was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the 1996 murder of nineteen-year-old Stacey Stites, but his legal team scored a huge win last Friday and Kim Kardashian was with the inmate when he found out.
During the time of the murder, Reed said that he and Stites were having an affair but expressed that he did not have anything to do with her murder. After a massive public rally last Friday, The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a 120-day stay of execution. That same day, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to postpone Reed’s execution indefinitely due to new evidence for the case.
Kim Kardashian-West learned about the death row inmate’s case on Twitter and tweeted Texas governor Greg Abbott and urged him to ‘do the right’ thing, given that Reed’s case has had substantial evidence that would clear Reed’s name.
While speaking in an interview with NBC News, Kardashian-West explained that she would usually go at length with speaking with the person’s family or the person themselves with her legal team before she does anything that can help them.
She further explained that having support is vital in situations like this and that she thought it was amazing that the support for Reed’s case has been so bipartisan, with people like writer Shaun King and U.S senator Ted Cruz rallying behind the cause and helping set up petitions where millions of people sign up in support.
“They say that it takes a village, but it really takes a country and it showed in this case.” the reality star inspiringly said.
Kardashian-West who has seemed to have found her passion besides being in the limelight has said publicly that she has been studying law and want to become a criminal justice lawyer. She has said that she wants to open a law firm that can help people in need especially the ones who were formerly incarcerated.