Texas Death Row Inmate Granted Stay of Execution Amidst Controversy and Legal Battles
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Jedidiah Murphy, a Jew on death row in Texas, has been granted a stay of execution one day before his scheduled lethal injection. Murphy was sentenced to death for the 2000 shooting of an 80-year-old woman during a carjacking. The stay was initially granted due to insufficient DNA evidence, but the Attorney General's Office filed a motion to vacate the stay. However, a federal appeals court upheld the stay until a similar DNA case is resolved. Murphy's attorneys have been unsuccessful in other attempts to spare him from the death penalty.
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