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A day before a North Carolina man was scheduled to be executed for a 1987 stabbing, the State Supreme Court postponed the execution because of concerns that Gov. Mike Easley, the former attorney general, might have a conflict of interest in the case.

The placards announced: "It is everybody's worst nightmare to be executed for a crime they did not commit.

She's the mother of Jon Hreggvidsson, who is scheduled to be executed for a mysterious death, discovered after a night of widespread drinking.

Its political import is built into its suspense: a young man is about to be executed for a murder to which he is linked only circumstantially and of which he seems to be manifestly innocent.

Mr Brewer, a white supremacist, was about to be executed for a murder committed in 1998, when he and two other men tortured a black man, James Byrd Jr, and dragged him to death behind a truck.

As Justice Anthony Kennedy explained, a convict may understand that he is on death row because of a heinous crime but may, nonetheless, be delusional in believing that he is to be executed for a nonsensical or unrelated reason.

It's been nine years since anyone was executed for a federal crime.

ON Wednesday night, Troy Davis was executed for a crime he may or may not have committed.

In July 2007, a 16-year old was executed for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 13.

David Grann, in a report for The New Yorker, made a persuasive case that Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for a crime he did not commit.

He was executed for a crime that took place on 5 September 1992, where a woman – Sabiha Bari – and her two sons were murdered.