HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Widespread power shortages in the Huntsville area were not affecting the scheduled execution of a Texas prisoner condemned for killing an elderly woman 10 years ago. Former auto mechanic and laborer William Murray, 39, was set to die Wednesday evening. The execution would be the ninth this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state.

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