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Jakarta had promised to respect the prisoners' legal challenges before setting an execution date.

Mr. Holder said the review would not prevent the Bureau of Prisons from setting an execution date for any of the 21 people on death row at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. Two-thirds of those prisoners are members of minorities.

What justice is served now by Texas's apparent attempt at an end run on the courts by setting an execution before the courts might have an opportunity to rule?

"That DA office routinely advises defense that it plans to seek an execution date and invites the defense lawyer to the hearing so that they lawyer can say if there is anything that's a barrier to setting an execution date".

We hope Governor Hutchinson will refrain from setting an execution date for Mr. Greene since he is not competent for execution," the attorney, John Williams, said in a statement.

He set an execution date of May 27; he noted that the date was theoretical.

The Supreme Court has set an execution date for Mr. Hamm for February 22 , 2018" he said.

"Nevertheless," Justice Stevens wrote, "Virginia set an execution date of June 13".

The State Court of Criminal Appeals set an execution date for a Mexican inmate whose case is pending before the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands.

This has become a matter of no small urgency: Georgia could set an execution date at any time.

The judge set an execution date of Oct. 14, though that will probably be postponed by appeals.