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Timothy J. McVeigh abandoned all efforts to postpone his execution after a federal court rejected his lawyers' most recent appeal.

That stay was granted two days before the scheduled execution after a lawyer from the Legal Aid Society of New York filed a late petition.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a death row inmate who faces execution after a mailroom mix-up at one of the nation's most prominent law firms.

REPRIEVE FOR TIGER STADIUM The Detroit City Council has granted Tiger Stadium a stay of execution after a 5-3 voto to reject a resolution that would have authorized the immediate demolition of the historic ballpark.

In December, Battaglia got another stay of execution after a state court found that he may not be mentally competent to be executed.

Then, in July, a judge halted Dozier's second scheduled execution after a drugmaker sued Nevada to stop the state from using one of the company's drugs in a lethal-injection combination.

Many are also disappointed by Jabbari's execution, after an investigation and trial that drew high-profile condemnation at home and abroad.

Illinois (whose governor recently declared a moratorium on executions after a spate of death-row exonerations) does not produce atypically faulty death sentences.

In November, Britain blocked exports of sodium thiopental for use in executions after a legal challenge by a human rights group.

In Florida, for example, Governor Jeb Bush (the president's brother) suspended executions after a fiasco last December in which the executioner missed a vein and pumped the drugs into muscle.

Mr. Graczyk, who also writes on a wide range of other topics, developed his unusual specialty in the mid-1980s, a few years after Texas resumed executions after a long hiatus.