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    Jedidiah Isaac Murphy - Texas Execution - October 10, 2023


    Bertie Cunningham’s Grave


    Jedidiah Isaac Murphy


    Murphy with his rabbi in 2016


    Murphy (October 2019)


    Jedidiah Murphy (2023)


    Facts of the Crime:

    On October 4, 2000, in Garland, Murphy forced his way into a car of 79-year-old Bertie Cunningham. After riding for about 30 minutes, Murphy forced the woman into the trunk of the car. The woman was shot while getting into the trunk. Murphy then drove her car to Van Zandt County, where she was removed from the trunk and drowned in a creek. Murphy later used the woman's credit cards to purchase alcohol and cigarettes.

    Murphy was sentenced to death in Dallas County on July 26, 2001.

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    Murphy was today denied a writ of habeas corpus by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...PINIONID=18137

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    Murphy's case was remanded to trial court to consider claims not exhausted consistent with a federal court ruling in an October 6, 2010 opinion.

    Opinion is here:

    http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/OP...PINIONID=20181

    Rehearing was denied by the TCCA for Murphy in today's orders/opinions.

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    On January 28, 2010, Murphy filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/tex...v00163/193203/

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    On October 22, 2015, Murphy was granted a new hearing by the Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...0163/193203/24
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Texas Rabbi gives death row inmate his last rites

    "When I showed him the tefillin, he smiled," said Rabbi Dovid Goldstein. "And no one ever smiles on death row."

    Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, a chaplain in the Texas prison system, brought some light into a dark place when he secured for a Jewish death row inmate the right to put on tefillin, as part of his last rites.

    16 years ago, Jedidia Murphy killed a 79-year-old woman. Murphy was sentenced to death, and has since served time in Livingston, Texas.

    Goldstein spent three months arranging for Murphy, who had never put on tefillin before, the chance to fulfill the rites of every Jewish Bar Mitzvah boy.

    “When I showed him my tefillin and asked him what they were,” said Goldstein, “he told me, ‘Yeah, those are tefillin. I was in foster care by the time I was 13 and never got to have a bar mitzvah.”

    "He smiled," said Goldstein. "And no one ever smiles on death row."

    The Chabad Rabbi continued, “within the greatest darkness, you can always find light. Prisons—and especially death row—are the darkest places in the world. Can you imagine the light that came into the world when a Jewish inmate put on tefillin?”

    http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Texas-...efillin-445097
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    On January 23, 2017, Murphy's amended habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...0163/193203/37

    On February 21, 2017, Murphy filed an appeal before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/17-70007
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    On December 4, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Murphy's appeal before the Fifth Circuit.

    http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/clerk/ca...2/17-70007.htm

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    COA granted in part and denied in part today by the 5th Circuit.

    https://cases.justia.com/federal/app...?ts=1524245491
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Same action as Erick Davila. He should ultimately receive an execution date in the fall of 2019.

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