Jedidiah Murphy, 48, who was sentenced to death for the fatal 2000 shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Texas .
Murphy’s fate had hung in limbo since Oct. 6, when he was granted a stay of execution by a federal district court. His case had mobilized Jewish opponents of the death penalty, including former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz; Cantor Michael Zoosman, a former prison chaplain who runs L’Chaim, a Jewish anti-death penalty group; and Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, a Chabad rabbi in Houston who has advocated for Murphy for years.
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He had a pastor present giving him is last rite,not exactly a jew,
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