“To the family of the victim, I sincerely apologize for all of it,” Jedidiah Murphy said while strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state’s lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death for killing an elderly woman decades ago was executed late Tuesday.
The execution took place hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an order that had delayed the death sentence from being carried out. The high court late Tuesday also turned down another request to stay Murphy’s execution over claims the drugs he was injected with were exposed to extreme heat and smoke during a recent fire, making them unsafe and leaving him at risk of pain and suffering.
In their filings, Murphy’s attorneys had questioned evidence of two robberies and a kidnapping used by prosecutors to persuade jurors during the penalty phase of his trial that Murphy would be a future danger — a legal finding needed to secure a death sentence in Texas. "A capital inmate who waits until the eleventh hour to raise long-available claims should not get to complain that he needs more time to litigate them," the attorney general’s office wrote in its petition to the high court.
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