An order to delay the execution of Jedidiah Murphy has been upheld. Murphy was convicted of killing an 80-year-old woman during a carjacking in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a ruling delaying this week's scheduled execution of a Texas inmate for fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman more than two decades ago. Jedidiah Murphy, 48, had been set to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the October 2000 death of Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in the Dallas suburb of Garland.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the judge's order. The three-judge panel said that another case before the appeals court that was brought by a different Texas death row inmate raises similar issues. 'We agree with the district court that a stay is appropriate at least until a decision in that case,' the three-judge panel wrote. The Texas Attorney General’s Office had sought to overturn the stay order.
Texas prosecutors have argued against the DNA testing, saying state law only allows for post-conviction testing of evidence related to guilt or innocence and not to a defendant’s sentence. Prosecutors say they put on 'significant other evidence' to show Murphy was a future danger. 'The public’s interest is not advanced by postponing execution any further ...
wake up to my crime daily and I’ve never gone a day without sincere remorse for the hurt I’ve caused,' Murphy wrote in a message earlier this year he sent to Michael Zoosman, who had corresponded with Murphy and is co-founder of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty. Murphy is Jewish. Last week, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously declined to commute Murphy’s death sentence to a lesser penalty or grant a six-month reprieve.
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