Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and will be executed on November 20—here's why celebrities are demanding he's released

Rihanna, Gigi Hadid and Kim Kardashian are among those urging the death row inmate be freed following new evidence.

approached him at the Stevenson Unit inseeking protection from the white supremacist gang from the"blacks and Mexicans" at the prison.started talking about his fiancée with"a lot of hatred and resentment" because she was having an affair with a black man.

Towards the end of the conversation,was serving a 10-year sentence at the time for kidnapping and raping a woman while on duty as a Georgetown police officer in a separate incident in 2007.said after he saw a picture of him in a newspaper article about Reed's case years later.

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