Texas executes man despite appeals over evidence and lethal injection drugs

Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was killed by the state for the 2000 killing of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking

A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of the state's lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a jury to sentence him to death for killing an elderly woman decades ago was executed late on Tuesday.

Jedidiah Murphy, 48, was pronounced dead after an injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the October 2000 fatal shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham of the Dallas suburb of Garland. Cunningham was killed during a carjacking.