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The Supreme Court refused to put off the execution of the condemned man, Leslie Lowenfield, 34 years old, shortly after midnight, Kathy Arberg, a Court spokeswoman, said in Washington.

They argued, unsuccessfully, that Mr Echegaray should be spared, because all the delays (for which his lawyers were partly responsible) meant that the time limit had been exceeded.The Supreme Court has now put off the execution of Mr Echegaray and all other condemned prisoners until June 15th.

With responses then certain from defense lawyers, the effect of the order was to put off the execution for months, lawyers said.

First, Craig's alleged 'return' – again, although he never left – puts off the execution of the wagers on all the other horses in the Bond race for another two years, at a minimum.

International rights groups have pleaded with authorities to put off the execution, but Belarus's president refused to pardon the men.

Indonesia's authorities, fearing an Islamist backlash and further bombings, repeatedly put off the executions.

Lawyers for both Buck and Woods are engaged in frenzied last-minute lobbying to Perry and to the courts to try to put off the executions.

J.D. Edwards put off the transition.

He fell one vote short of having his execution date put off.

(More recently, Ali G asked Richard Thornburgh, the former Attorney General, if a death-row inmate could put off execution indefinitely by requesting an all-you-can-eat buffet).

But the execution was put off for at least six months by the decision of the judge, Orlando Luis Garcia of the Federal District Court in San Antonio, who suggested that he would hold the hearing next February or March.