Sentence examples for halt the execution of from inspiring English sources

Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon on Tuesday said he would halt the execution of a death row inmate scheduled for next month and that he would allow no more executions in the state during his time in office.

Sophie Okonedo, as lawyer Maya, sped down a Louisiana highway in a bid to halt the execution of a condemned man (Dennis Haysbert) she had been fighting to save.

His answer surprised many, since as governor of Texas he declined to halt the execution of a mentally retarded man and opposed a flat legislative ban on this sort of execution.

A congressman and two British legal societies have joined 17 American lawyers and legal scholars in asking Gov. Mark Warner to halt the execution of a man whose court-appointed counsel once represented the murder victim.

Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz's opinion piece was published in the Daily Telegraph on the day the Islamic Human Rights Commission urged the UN to halt the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a Saudi cleric who had called for pro-democracy demonstrations.

In 1992, during his party's New Hampshire primary, Bill Clinton, then Arkansas governor but soon-to-be the Democratic presidential nominee, pointedly refused to halt the execution of a man with brain damage.Nevertheless, the current enthusiasm of Americans for the death penalty remains something of a puzzle.

In October, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which granted the reprieve, halted the execution of Heliberto Chi on the same issues.

PAGE A9 INMATE'S EXECUTION HALTED AGAIN A federal appeals court halted the execution of an inmate in Georgia convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer.

The United States Supreme Court halted the execution of a condemned killer less than three hours before he was to have been to death.

In a decision a week ago Sunday, a state court judge in Florida, Carven D. Angel, halted the execution of a death row inmate, saying, "We need to have people with competence and experience" to perform executions.

This case should not only be a catalyst for halting the execution of the mentally retarded, but it should also generate a broader debate on the inexcusable delays by state courts in death penalty appeals.