A Texas judge on Sunday denied a retrial of convicted rapist and murderer, Rodney Reed, after deciding that newly presented evidence was not sufficient enough to grant a new one. Reed, 53, is currently on death row after being found guilty and sentenced to death for the assault, rape, and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors allege that in 1996, Reed, who is black, raped, and strangled Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Austin. Reed has long maintained that the victims’ fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, who is white, is the one who killed her after discovering she was having an affair with Reed. Fennell, who served ten years in prison for kidnapping and allegedly raping a woman while on duty as a police officer in 2007, has denied killing Stites. Retired state District Judge J.D. Langley was appointed to …