Sentence examples for execution stayed from inspiring English sources

The exceptions were allowed, and for their trial the sentence was respited, execution stayed, and the cause passed to the supreme court of Vermont.

His execution, stayed last August by the Court of Criminal Appeals, was one of those rescheduled after the court ruled on appellate lawyer competency.

Williamson was five days away from death when The Innocence Project, an organization that uses modern technology to rescue wrongfully convicted prisoners, got his execution stayed in 1994 and helped free him and Fritz in 1999.

Three ethnic Tamils given the death penalty for plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 have seen their execution stayed twice for political reasons, analysts say, given strong opposition among Tamils in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

A16 Tennessee Execution Stayed A federal appeals court stayed the scheduled Wednesday execution of Philip Ray Workman, 47, convicted of murdering a police officer in 1981, to give the Supreme Court more time to review the recantation of a witness and a new ballistics theory.

Meanwhile, attorneys representing death row inmates can do little more than push for execution stays as they demand more information and more certainty that deaths will not come after slow torture.

But the state balked, and Mr. Morales' execution was stayed.

His execution was stayed before that date, owing to multiple appeals still available to his attorneys.

Four men, including Singh, were sentenced to death for the crime but their execution was stayed on appeal by India's Supreme Court.

Nonetheless, the execution was stayed in July 2015, when the Pakistani Supreme Court agreed to hear her appeal.

When Richard Glossip's execution was stayed on September 16, it was the third time the 52-year-old escaped lethal injection.