The execution of a Texas inmate condemned for fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman was set to proceed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s stay. Jedidiah Murphy’s execution is set to take place Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was sentenced to death for the October 2000 killing of Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking. The U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday afternoon granted an appeal from the state attorney general’s office asking to overturn an execution stay granted last week by a federal judge and upheld on Monday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Still pending before the high court is another stay request over the safety of Texas execution drugs.
FILE - This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jedidiah Murphy. On Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s
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