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Executed death row con's tragic last words may prove right as DNA tests suggest innocence
executed for killing a woman by beating her may be innocent as fresh DNA evidence comes to light.Ledell Lee, who was on death row for 21 years, was sentenced to execution after he was found guilty of murdering Debra Reese by beating her with a tyre thumper, a tool resembling a sawn-off baseball bat used by truckers to test the pressure of their wheels.Her strangled body was found in her home in Jacksonville, Arkansas in 1993 with multiple injuries.Lee, 51, was executed on April 20, 2017 by lethal injection using the sedative midazolam but just before he was put to death he told Mirror journalist Christopher Bucktin that they were "killing an innocent man".It has now been confirmed that a different man’s DNA has been discovered on the murder
