But the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada was granted legal standing to oppose Mr. Castillo's execution on behalf of a Spanish-language newspaper in the Reno area, Ahora, which contends that masking the suffering of a dying inmate violates the news media's right to observe the impact of the punishment.
Attorney Maurie Levin has filed a stay of execution motion on behalf of Texas death row prisoner Robert James Campbell in the wake of the latest Oklahoma horror.
Australia opposes the death penalty and Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters the government would continue to make representations on behalf of Australians facing execution in overseas jurisdictions.
"This is really the quintessential execution of what we'd like to do on behalf of our clients," Mr. Rone said.
He went to Santiago, Chile, to demonstrate on behalf of 77 actors threatened with execution by the Pinochet regime.
Earlier this spring, film director Asghar Farhadi wrote an emotional open letter on behalf of a woman who faced execution for fatally stabbing a man who had tried to rape her.
Lawyers are then expected to argue on behalf of two defendants who could face execution if they convicted, Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali, 24, and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, 27.
The allegations came yesterday as the Foreign Office made clear that it would intervene on behalf of the five British men to prevent their executions should they be convicted of bomb-making in a pending trial.
According to the Associated Press, the attorney acting on behalf of the McGuire family said that the execution had violated the dead man's constitutional right not to suffer cruel or unusual punishment.
"I'm old, babe, but not dead," Milo boasts between the gunfights and bar brawls that mark his entertaining, if erratic, progress across the state on behalf of a gunslinger he hopes to save from execution.
