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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Rodney Reed. The state's top criminal appeals court is refusing to allow additional DNA testing of evidence in the lengthy Central Texas death penalty case of Reed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the request by Reed's attorneys was the latest of a number of legal moves to unreasonably delay his execution for the April 1996 abduction, rape and strangling of 19-year-old Stacy Stites. Her body was found off the side of a road in Bastrop County. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015 file photo, a message covers the side window of a sports utility vehicle about the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old woman by Denver Police Department officers while mourners visit the site of the shooting in an alleyway in northeast Denver. The woman, Jessica Hernandez, died when she allegedly drove a stolen vehicle at officers in the alleyway. On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, Denver officials agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the family of Hernandez. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2015, file photo, signs and votive candles stand at a makeshift memorial as it grows at the site of a fatal police shooting in an alleyway in northeast Denver. Denver Police officers killed a 17-year-old girl when she allegedly drove a stolen vehicle at the officers. On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, Denver officials announced that the city has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to the family of teenager. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Law enforcement work the scene of a shooting in Gresham, Ore., Wednesday, April 12, 2017. An Oregon man and his two young daughters died after police got word he was threatening the girls, leading to a shootout with officers. (Everton Bailey Jr. /The Oregonian via AP)
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez blows a kiss to his daughter, who sat with her mother, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, Hernandez's longtime fiancee, during jury deliberations in his double-murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford /The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez smiles at the sight of his fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, who brought the couple's daughter to court, during jury deliberations in his double-murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford /The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, fiancee of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, sits in the courtroom with the couple's daughter during jury deliberations in Hernandez's double-murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford /The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez blows a kiss to his daughter, who sat with her mother, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, Hernandez's longtime fiancee, during jury deliberations in his double-murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Hernandez is charged in the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player already is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Keith Bedford /The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge connects for a two-run home run against the Tampa Bay Rays during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2016, file photo, championship banners are removed from the Edward Jones Dome, former home of the St. Louis Rams football team in St. Louis. The city of St. Louis and that region's sports authority are suing the National Football League over the Rams' relocation to Los Angeles. The lawsuit filed Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in St. Louis Circuit Court also names the NFL's 32 teams as defendants and seeks unspecified damages and restitution.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
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Attorney Norman Siegel holds an image showing the sculptures Charging Bull and "Fearless Girl" facing one another at his law offices in New York Wed., April 12, 2017. Charging Bull's creator, sculptor Arturo Di Modica, and his attorneys announced at the news conference that he's challenging city officials who issued a permit for "Fearless Girl," a bronze statue that faces the bull sculpture on the same cobble stone island in the street, and has drawn worldwide attention. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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FILE In this March 8, 2017 file photo, the "Fearless Girl" statue faces Wall Street's charging bull statue in New York. The sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” says New York City is violating his legal rights by forcing his bronze beast to face off against the “Fearless Girl.” Artist Arturo Di Modica said Wednesday, April 12, that the new neighboring statue changes his bull into something negative. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, file photo, Leon Brown listens to evidence during a court hearing for him and his half brother, death row inmate Henry McCollum in Lumberton, N.C. The half-brothers wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl have reached a settlement with investigators who helped put them behind bars. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, Henry McCollum holds a framed copy of his pardon before a hearing on compensation by the state for his wrongful conviction in Raleigh, N.C. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl have reached a settlement with investigators who helped put them behind bars. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew, File)
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FILE - This Feb 22, 2017 file photo released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows Ryan Alexander Duke, in Georgia. Duke was charged with murder Feb. 23 in the slaying of Tara Grinstead, an Irwin County High School teacher who disappeared in 2005. Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney Paul Bowden says a grand jury on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, indicted Ryan Alexander Duke on charges including murder and concealing a death, in Grinstead's death. (Georgia Bureau of Investigation via AP)
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These undated photos provided by the Chenango County Sheriff's Department in Norwich, N.Y. shows Heather and Ernest Franklin. The couple decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sheriff's Department/WBNG News via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Chenango County Sherriffs Office shows Heather Franklin. Ernest and Heather Franklin decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sherriffs Office via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Chenango County Sherriffs Office shows Ernest Franklin. Ernest and Heather Franklin decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie "Manchester by the Sea," according to the New York prosecutor handling the case. (Chenango County Sherriffs Office via AP)
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Curtis Flournoy, 32, was arrested April 9, 2017, in North Carolina in connection with arson at an Indian store. A note at the scene was signed "white America" and said the attack was inspired by President Donald Trump's agenda. (WSOC-TV 9, ABC North Carolina screenshot)
