Sentence examples for execution was delayed from inspiring English sources

Lockett's execution was delayed while authorities struggled to find an adequate vein.

(She was not hanged, as the execution was delayed until the craze was over).

Though Mr. Taylor's scheduled execution was delayed because of legal challenges, the drugs had already been mixed for him.

Mr. Graham's execution was delayed nearly two hours as his lawyers mounted last-minute appeals that took state officials by surprise.

Update: Richard Glossip's execution was delayed on Wednesday afternoon by thirty-seven days because of questions concerning the chemicals used for lethal injection.

The execution was delayed for 30 days to, in the words of the US attorney general, "promote and protect the integrity of our system of justice".

"The SDK is analogous to an arbitration clause in code form — when the smart contract executes a function, that execution is delayed for a pre-set amount of time (i.e. 24 hours) and users receive a text/email notification regarding the execution," Wan wrote to me in an email.

Mr. Bush made his statements about the case a day after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, refused to accept the recommendation of a lower court that the execution be delayed so DNA tests could be conducted.

"I am unaware," he wrote in response to Justice Breyer's 1999 dissent, "of any support in the American constitutional tradition or in this court's precedent for the proposition that a defendant can avail himself of the panoply of appellate and collateral procedures and then complain when his execution is delayed".

They asked that his execution be delayed or his sentence be commuted to life with no parole.

The executions were delayed until Germany surrendered because the Nazis had threatened to execute American POWs in retaliation, said John Reichley, a historian at Ft. Leavenworth.