Sentence examples for execution was halted from inspiring English sources
The execution was halted.
However, the execution was halted in the nick of time when two anaesthesiologists belatedly refused to oversee the procedure.
Mr. Alexander was scheduled to die last year but the execution was halted so more sophisticated DNA testing could be performed on evidence.
This results in periodic phenomena like the case of Balal, a young man whose 16 April execution was halted after the mother of the man Balal was convicted of killing relinquished her right to ghesas as Balal stood on the scaffold.
Broom's execution was halted after a team tried for two hours to find a suitable vein, sticking him with needles at least 18 times and causing pain so excruciating he cried and screamed.
Stroud's mother appealed to President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Wilson, and the execution was halted just eight days before it was to be carried out; the gallows had already been built and viewed by Stroud from his cell.
Though the number of new death sentences crept up slightly from last year to 80, that remains close to the lowest level since executions were halted by the US supreme court in 1973 and far fewer than the peak of 315 in 1996.
California executions were halted by a court in 2006 over concern that the state's three-drug method carried the risk of causing a painful death.
Panetti remains on death row in Texas after a 2014 execution attempt was halted.
The emigration of German Jews was halted and their deportation to execution sites in the East began.
