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

In the first case to put in effect a sweeping ruling by an international court in the Netherlands concerning Mexicans on death row here, an Oklahoma appeals court yesterday halted the execution of one of those inmates, Osbaldo Torres.

An appeals court in Oklahoma halted the execution of Richard Glossip, 52, just two hours before his scheduled death on Wednesday.

Iran has halted the execution of Amirhossein Pourjafar, a convicted child rapist who was sentenced to death when he was just 16-years-old.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.