I'm aware of no ongoing appeals. The closest thing I know of is the mention at the end of the Wikipedia link that he recently had a hearing on whether he should get a whole new trial, which is unlikely to produce anything. As a Federal Appellate Judge once stated as part of his ruling from the bench, "The only justice in the TX Dept. of Criminal Justice is in the name. " I'm not saying he should be released; he's been proven guilty of a number of other crimes. But saying justice was served when the prosecution concealed evidence from the defense (in defiance of well established rules of discovery) and ignored the testimony of two witnesses who sought them out (one of them a police officer with no connection to Reed, but very real connections to the victims police officer e and no new trial is possible on that basis... I can't believe that. Saying a jury has ruled no reasonable doubt existed when they were deliberately deprived of several critical pieces of evidence just doesn't wash.

A separate issue, but one worth addressing. If I didn't believe everyone redeemable I'd need to choose a religion where that's not a basic principle. That doesn't necessarily mean you release them, but it's a strong argument against execution. And I already conceded prisoners should be treated decently but not luxuriantly; it's not a reward.

Lawyers and politicians tend to be more sensitive to how malicious treatment can come back to bite them in the rear. For example, down here we recently had a Governor who said during his Presidential campaign that the state, which routinely leads the nation in executions (several times over) never executed an innocent man while he was Governor. Shortly after his inauguration in President a Houston man was released from death row after DNA evidence proved someone else committed the murder of which he was convicted; I guess it's all about timing....

I'm not saying let them all go, only that they should be treated as human beings confined for crimes, sometimes reprehensible crimes, of which they were convicted. And regarding execution, if you know of a temporal appeals court that can reverse an execution I'd be interested to hear of it.

Incidentally, if I came off as combative in this thread that was not my intent. I'm not in favor of coddling known criminals, but I very much take Adams words on condemning the innocent to heart. If it becomes routine, particularly in capital cases, respect for the rule of law will vanish from the public as well as the courts. If that's allowed to happen none of us will be safe from each others vengeance for the smallest slight once they believe they can as easily be executed despite innocence as for brutally murdering us.