The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed who has sought to test crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who claims untested crime-scene evidence will help clear him.

A woman holds a sign during a protest against the execution of Rodney Reed on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Bastrop, Texas. The stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals came just hours after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had recommended delaying the lethal injection. Bryce Benjet, an attorney with the Innocence Project, which is representing Reed, said defense attorneys were “extremely relieved and thankful” to the appeals court. The Texas Attorney General’s Office declined to comment Friday on whether it would appeal the order staying Reed’s execution. In their most recent motion to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Reed’s lawyers alleged prosecutors suppressed evidence or presented false evidence related to Fennell.

The opportunity to save his life, Rodrick told CBS News. Rodney has been on death row since 1998, convicted of murdering 19-year-old Stacey Stites in 1996. According to The Innocence Project, which represents Rodney, the murder weapona belt was never tested for DNA evidence. Rodneys attorney with The Innocence Project, Bryce Benjet, tells CBS News that new evidence is giving Rodney hope. "All we're asking for is just our fair treatment, a fair trial," Rodrick told CBS News.

Rodney Reed has spent more than 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. LIVINGSTON Texas - The outcry is growing from an army of supporters, including celebrities, clergy and state lawmakers, trying to stop the execution of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who is set to die in less than two weeks. They point to new witness accounts and evidence they say exonerates Reed. But critics, including the lead prosecutor in Reed's case, say there is overwhelming evidence that he is guilty. "Rodney Reed is not innocent at all and all these people that think he's innocent, I'm so sorry, they're so blinded," Schlueter, now 42, said about Stites' murder.

Reed says Fennell was angry because Stites, who was white, was having an affair with Reed, who is black. Reed's efforts to stop his execution have received support from such celebrities as Rihanna, Dr. Phil and Kim Kardashian West, who last month in a tweet asked Texas Gov. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last month denied Reed's request for a stay of his execution. An online petition asking Abbott to stop Reed's execution has garnered significant support. He has granted just one reprieve to stop an execution since he came to office in January 2015.

Rodney Reed has spent over 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. (Ralph Barrera/American-Statesman/AP)(CNN) - Less than a month before Rodney Reed is set to be executed in Texas, a former prison inmate claims someone else confessed to the murder that sent Reed to prison. Reed has spent more than 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Bastrop, Texas. Former inmate Arthur Snow Jr. filed an affidavit in court earlier this week saying Stites' fianc, Jimmy Fennell, confessed to the murder years ago. Snow realized Reed was in prison for a murder that Fennell had confessed to him, Snow said in his affidavit.