Jedidiah Murphy had been set to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening in Huntsville for the deadly carjacking in the Dallas suburb of Garland.
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.
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.
Murphy’s lawyers believe the DNA testing would help show he did not commit the robberies and kidnapping. If Murphy’s execution took place Tuesday, it would have occurred on World Day Against the Death Penalty, an annual day of advocacy by death penalty opponents.“I 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.
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