New person's DNA found on murder weapon four years after convicted man executed

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Lawyers for a man who was executed in the US say someone else's DNA has been found on the murder weapon. Ledell Lee was given a lethal injection four years ago after the state of Arkansas found him guilty for the 1993 murder of Debra Reese.

He maintained his innocence to the end. Shortly before his death, he told the BBC: "My dying words will always be, as it has been: I am an innocent man." Now, attorneys for his family say a different person's DNA has been found on the weapon used to kill Reese – and that there is no "absolute or conclusive" connection to Lee, as CNN reports.

The development raises fresh questions about Lee's conviction. He was one of eight men put on a "conveyor belt" of executions by a state seeking to ensure its