Rodney Reed
Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, but has long maintained that her fiance was the real killer.
The decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals means the death row inmate no longer has an execution date.
A bipartisan group of Texas senators and representatives issued two separate but identical letters as support for the death row inmate's commutation grows.
