Episode 43

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

When Rodney Reed turned himself in to Bastrop Police, on what he though was a gun charge, little did he know he would be spending the next 17 years on Death Row for a crime he did not commit. However, that seems to be exactly what happened. He was charged, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Stacey Stites who he was having an affair with at the time. Unfortunately for Rodney, Stites was engaged to a Bastrop police officer named Jimmy Fennel who allegedly didn't take to kindly to his future wife sleeping with a black man. While Reed rotted away in a Texas jail cell, Jimmy Fennel and other cops who were allegedly involved in the coverup went on with their lives. Until an event in 2007, washing over Fennell like a Karmic wave, exposed the truth behind his real character. Despite this, appeal after appeal has failed and Rodney Reed's fate now lies in the hands of a few powerful people and listeners like you who have the power to change the course of events by standing up and demanding true justice.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence.
0:03.0	It is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:07.0	Yeah, hey, I'm calling about the death penalty episode.
0:14.0	My opinion is that it should be abolished everywhere.
0:18.0	I don't think that there's any reason to take anybody's life, even if they've
0:24.1	taken many lives themselves. I think they should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives with
0:32.0	very little to no frills, which I think would be more of justice than just ending their life.
0:43.5	I also think that there's a lot of cases where innocent are convicted, and there have been
0:51.2	instances where people have been killed when they were later found to be innocent,
0:57.0	so I don't think that it's a risk that we should be taking.
1:01.0	That's my two cents.
1:03.0	Okay, after I wrote this out on your Facebook page, I feel like I can just read it off to you here.
1:10.0	I do not believe that we should ask a state employee to kill someone unless that person is an imminent threat to the safety of others.
1:17.6	The death penalty is only usable at situations where the criminal is in jail.
1:22.0	And while in jail, the criminal is not a threat to others.
1:26.3	And my name is Carl.
1:28.0	I am from Tavenington, Washington.
1:29.9	Hey, Stuart and Scale teen.
1:32.4	My name is Michael.
1:33.5	I'm calling from Chicago.
1:34.7	I'm a big fan of the show.
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