Advocates argue that a difficult childhood and religious devotion should lead to a commutation or delay of execution.
Jedidiah Murphy doesn’t claim to be innocent. He confessed to police shortly after killing 79-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in Dallas County on October 4, 2000. He was 25 at the time—he used Cunningham’s stolen credit cards to buy alcohol and cigarettes. He told thehe “confessed to this case before I was ever arrested, and that was because I wanted people to know the truth.” , where he’s been for the past 22 years, he talks instead about repentance.
“I cannot undo what took place, and I carry that with me all the time, and I think it should be that way.” Lawyers have brought up this aspect of the case numerous times, attempting to poke holes in the alleged connection between Murphy and this crime: Murphy’s work record provides him what seems to be an alibi, the victim identification happened only after significant time had passed, she had been exposed to news reports of Murphy’s case, and—recently—his lawyers discovered that fingerprints from a car tied to the case didn’t match Murphy’s.
“After being twice abandoned by his mother, and experiencing the death of three caregivers within a four-month period, Jedidiah began a turbulent journey through two different adoptive placements and various foster care institutions, all of which continued the cycle of trauma, abuse, and neglect,” reads the clemency petition.
He experienced auditory hallucinations, blackouts, and memory loss, and by the time he was 16 years old, he was addicted to alcohol. He graduated high school and spent some time in prison. He said he was “suicidal beyond measure” at this time. Doctors noted that, in addition to his hallucinations, he seemed “very anxious, agitated…seems very frightened of all these visual hallucinations that he’s experiencing. Seems very depressed, tears up easily, and has a real profound sense of depression.”
More than 5,000 people have signed a petition asking Governor Greg Abbott to halt the execution. The text of the petition asks, “Should the State of Texas kill someone that they clearly failed time and time again as a child?”
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