BREAKING: Member of notorious 'Texas 7' gang of escaped prisoners wins reprieve from execution.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Patrick Murphy. Lawyers for the member of the notorious "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 28, 2019, say he should be spared because he never fatally shot a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery nearly 18 years earlier. Murphy is slated to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in an opinion Thursday night, said inmates of other religious denominations who want their religious adviser to be present can have the adviser present only in the viewing room and not in the execution room itself for their executions.Murphy was convicted in the December 2000 death of Irving police Officer Aubrey Hawkins.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a request to stay his execution on the same grounds, upholding a lower court decision.
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