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Amnesty said that in addition to the nine who may already have been executed, "more are under threat of imminent executions today and in the coming days".

This month Oklahoma's Supreme Court briefly stayed two imminent executions, concerned about secrecy.

But Ruddock says no one in the Howard government had power to give "any direction politically" to the AFP on its fateful decision, which has faced renewed criticism in light of the imminent executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

As a result, Tuesday's ruling by the Texas court was seen as a sign that judges in the nation's leading death penalty state were taking guidance from the Supreme Court and putting off imminent executions.

In Texas, lawyers for two murderers on death row filed a lawsuit in a Houston federal court on Tuesday attempting to stop the inmates' imminent executions on the basis that the state department of criminal justice is refusing to reveal details about the compounded pentobarbital to be used in the two lethal injections.

Even without a written opinion, the Supreme Court's action on Tuesday night clarified a situation that had become increasingly confusing as state courts and the lower federal courts, without further guidance from the justices, wrestled with claims from a growing number of death-row inmates that their imminent executions should be delayed.

He described the imminent execution as barbaric.

It filed its complaint in January 2003 to halt the imminent execution of three of its citizens.

Foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment.

But the condemned do not live under threat of imminent execution; the long delays give the lie to that claim.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a New York group, warned this month that he was "in danger of imminent execution".