Sentence examples similar to stay execution from inspiring English sources

"Prison Director has stayed execution for (the second inmate) Charles Warner for 14 days".

In the last couple of months, the court has agreed to hear one case and stayed executions in two others presenting variations on that theme.

As Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote in a 1986 decision, "the court has ordinarily stayed executions when four members have voted" to hear an appeal.

Four justices had voted to stay the execution.

It might be the governor calling to stay my execution".

But it takes five votes to stay an execution.

Like Scheherazade, he tells his story in order to stay his execution.

Did she have anything to say to me, a name, to stay the execution?

Stay of execution granted Aug. 23.

But unions and environment campaigners warned that this could not just be a "stay of execution".

Announced the "stay of execution", orphaned moose calves to be protected @ this time by Dept of Fish & Game.