Mr. Johnson, who was set to be executed at 6 p.m., was sentenced to die for the Sept. 10, 1995, shooting death of Jeff Wetterman, 27, in a convenience store robbery in the central Texas town of Lorena.
With Manning sentenced and set to be sent to prison, it seems likely that his story will once again fade into the background on mainstream American news networks.
Mr. Majid's sentence was set to be carried out on Oct. 16, but was postponed because of wrangling over Mr. Ahmed's execution.
A teenager who pleaded guilty to setting fire to his church has been sentenced to six months of weekend jail time and 250 hours of community service at a local burn unit, the Erie County district attorney said yesterday.
The Hammonds claimed the fires were set to help their ranching operations and were sentenced to short prison sentences in 2012; when the Obama administration appealed, those sentences were increased to five years apiece in 2015, the mandatory minimum for setting fires on federal land.
