Texas executes man who questioned evidence presented at trial in deadly carjacking of elderly woman
By JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who questioned the evidence given to the jury that sentenced him to death for killing an 80-year-old woman decades ago has been executed. Jedidiah Murphy received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Murphy was condemned for the October 2000 death of Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in a Dallas suburb. He was the sixth inmate in Texas put to death this year and the 20th in the U.S. Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an order delaying the execution. It also denied a late stay request challenging the safety of the Texas execution drugs.
