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See articleNew Jersey's legislature voted to suspend executions until a task-force reports later this year on the fairness of the state's death row.

No doubt the Chinese government will suspend executions for a few weeks, and be able to say, "A beautiful day, a great day".

A separate bill, being considered in the General Assembly Judiciary Committee, would suspend executions for two years while the issue is studied.

The Council of Europe (1994) and the EU (1998) established as a condition of membership in their organizations the requirement that prospective member countries suspend executions and commit themselves to abolition.

A21 Illinois to Suspend Executions Gov. George Ryan plans to block executions pending a special investigation into why Illinois has seen more of its death sentences overturned than it has carried out, The Chicago Tribune reported.

In fact, one of the 13 cases that led Governor Ryan to suspend executions in Illinois, that of Anthony Porter, went through the entire review process without any error being detected, said Lawrence C. Marshall, a professor of law at Northwestern University and director of its Center on Wrongful Convictions.

This requires clear and straightforward procedures that do not suspend execution of a compulsory license if appealed against.

At a time when some other states are considering suspending executions, debating racial disparities in capital convictions or examining the wisdom of executing mentally retarded prisoners, Alabama officials remain firmly opposed to changes in the state's death penalty system.

The South African government has suspended executions indefinitely.

The state has suspended executions pending an investigation.

Mr. Bush, who has left office, suspended executions while the commission did its work.