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Jedidiah Murphy wears a skull cap that was a gift from one of his supporters, Rabbi Yehuda Eber, in the death row unit at Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, October 26, 2019. (Yehuda Eber via JTA)
October 10, 2023, 1:30 am
As execution day nears, advocates for Texas Jew on death row say hopes are dimming
Jedidiah Murphy is to die by lethal injection Tuesday for the murder of a 79-year-old during a carjacking, but many say he would be more valuable ministering to fellow prisoners
By Ron Kampeas
Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, December 3, 2003. (Brett Coomer/AP)
October 14, 2021, 11:47 am
Texas Jewish death row inmate granted new trial due to judge’s antisemitism
Randy Halprin, a member of the ‘Texas 7,’ alleged that Judge Vickers Cunningham referred to him using antisemitic slurs
By Shira Hanau
Death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, December 3, 2003. (Brett Coomer/AP)
April 7, 2020, 3:39 pm
US Supreme Court won’t hear death row inmate who claims judge was anti-Semitic
Randy Halprin, one of the so-called Texas 7, says Justice Vickers Cunningham has used racist slurs, demands a fair trial before unbiased bench
By AP
Death row inmate Randy Halprin sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, December 3, 2003. (AP Photo/Brett Coomer)
September 6, 2019, 2:44 am
Jewish groups call to halt execution of inmate who says judge was anti-Semitic
Randy Halprin, convicted of killing cop, says Texas official who handed him sentence referred to him using racial slurs, asks for new trial
By Josefin Dolsten
In this December 3, 2003, file photo, death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. (AP Photo/Brett Coomer, File)
July 9, 2019, 6:40 pm
Execution date set for US Jewish inmate who claimed judge was anti-Semitic
Randy Halprin, now 41, was sentenced to death in 2003 for murder of Texas cop, has demanded a retrial ‘free of discrimination and bias’
By Marcy Oster
Illustrative: Russian women, who have been sentenced to life in prison on grounds of joining the Islamic State terror group, standing with their children in a hallway, in Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, on April 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ammar Karim)
June 29, 2018, 12:30 pm
Iraq executes 13 death row jihadists in response to Islamic State killings
Haider al-Abadi begins carrying out threat to execute 300 convicts, include many Western nationals, in response to execution of captive hostages by terror group
By Agencies
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (C) speaks as he presents candidates running on his list during an electoral campaign rally in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala on May 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Sawaf)
June 29, 2018, 8:02 am
Iraqi PM orders ‘immediate’ execution of hundreds of death row terrorists
Haider al-Abadi announces measure in response to execution of captives by IS; convicts facing death include many Western nationals
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of drugs (Orel Cohen /Flash90)
January 10, 2018, 3:14 pm
New Iran drug law saves thousands from the noose
Most convicted drug traffickers will see death sentences commuted to jail terms of 25 to 30 years
By AFP
This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)
February 19, 2017, 6:32 pm
Hamas condemns 6 ‘informants for Israel’ to death by hanging
Verdict raises number of people on death row to 10; others given jail term for alleged spying
By Dov Lieber
This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)
December 13, 2016, 10:25 am
Silence, concern surround Gaza woman’s death sentence
Convicted of killing her husband, Nahla A. faces the first execution of a Palestinian woman in more than 20 years
By Sakher Abou El Oun
Chicken Breast (Photo Credit:CC By-SA,avlxyz/Flickr)
July 26, 2016, 3:16 am
Jew on death row sues to keep kosher
Prison authorities pulled man from special program after he ate non-authorized chicken
By AP
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of West Houston and a chaplain in the Texas prison system, with death-row inmate Jedidiah Murphy, who donned tefillin for the first time to celebrate his bar mitzvah. (Courtesy Chabad.org)
February 18, 2016, 3:39 am
Texas death-row inmate wraps tefillin for first time
Jedidiah Murphy, born Jewish but raised in foster homes, convicted in 2001 for murder of 79-year-old woman
By JTA
Steven Hayes (photo credit: AP)
November 13, 2014, 11:39 pm
US death-row inmate hunger-strikes for kosher meals
Murderer of Connecticut family claims ’emotional injury’ for having to choose between following God and sinning to survive
By AP
Illustrative photo of a noose (photo credit: CC BY-Patrick Feller/Flickr)
July 19, 2013, 10:03 am
On stage in Tehran: Stories of death row youth
Raw, edgy, political showcase of activist art against child executions cleared by Iranian authorities in surprising move
By Nasser Karimi
January 14, 2013, 5:17 pm
Death row inmate loses bid to pray with Jewish inmates
Officials say that allowing convicted killer William Harry Meece to gather with members of general prison population represents a security risk
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