A court in Texas has stayed the execution of an African-American man who has been on death row for 17 years, after his attorneys presented new evidence of his innocence. Rodney Reed was scheduled to die March 5 for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, a white woman with whom he says he was having an affair. But Reed’s attorneys say a new investigation has uncovered evidence Stites was actually killed hours before state prosecutors claimed. The new timeline appears to implicate Stites’ fiancé, Jimmy Fennell, a white former police officer now in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while on duty.