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International rights groups have pleaded with authorities to put off the execution, but Belarus's president refused to pardon the men.

With responses then certain from defense lawyers, the effect of the order was to put off the execution for months, lawyers said.

Defense lawyers cited these letters as reasons to put off the execution until DNA tests could be conducted on crime scene evidence, including a rape kit, a request that Mr. Manning had made unsuccessfully several times before.

But there are serious questions about the case, so much so that international rights organizations and Western governments have pleaded with the Belarus authorities to put off the execution.

The Supreme Court refused to put off the execution of the condemned man, Leslie Lowenfield, 34 years old, shortly after midnight, Kathy Arberg, a Court spokeswoman, said in Washington.

They argued, unsuccessfully, that Mr Echegaray should be spared, because all the delays (for which his lawyers were partly responsible) meant that the time limit had been exceeded.The Supreme Court has now put off the execution of Mr Echegaray and all other condemned prisoners until June 15th.

Indonesia's authorities, fearing an Islamist backlash and further bombings, repeatedly put off the executions.

Lawyers for both Buck and Woods are engaged in frenzied last-minute lobbying to Perry and to the courts to try to put off the executions.

First, Craig's alleged 'return' – again, although he never left – puts off the execution of the wagers on all the other horses in the Bond race for another two years, at a minimum.

Still, Plyler put off the decision.

J.D. Edwards put off the transition.