03/05/2026
Arkansas executed Ledell Lee in 2017 for a crime that happened back in 1993. He never stopped insisting he was innocent.
Four years after his ex*****on, lawyers finally got permission to test the DNA on the murder weapon. It wasn't his.
The DNA on the bloody wooden club belonged to someone else. An unknown man.
The same DNA was also found on a bloody shirt wrapped around the weapon. Five out of six hairs from the crime scene were not his either.
His lawyers had begged for this testing before the ex*****on, but the request was denied. The state was rushing through ex*****ons because their lethal injection drugs were about to expire.
Now his sister and the Innocence Project are left with evidence that might have saved his life, but came too late.
The unknown DNA is now in a national database, waiting for a match that may never come.
