'suspend execution' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to temporarily delay the carrying out of a sentence or decision. For example: The judge decided to suspend the execution of the prison sentence until a full investigation had been conducted.
A separate bill, being considered in the General Assembly Judiciary Committee, would suspend executions for two years while the issue is studied.
See articleNew Jersey's legislature voted to suspend executions until a task-force reports later this year on the fairness of the state's death row.
No doubt the Chinese government will suspend executions for a few weeks, and be able to say, "A beautiful day, a great day".
The Council of Europe (1994) and the EU (1998) established as a condition of membership in their organizations the requirement that prospective member countries suspend executions and commit themselves to abolition.
In fact, one of the 13 cases that led Governor Ryan to suspend executions in Illinois, that of Anthony Porter, went through the entire review process without any error being detected, said Lawrence C. Marshall, a professor of law at Northwestern University and director of its Center on Wrongful Convictions.
The complications in putting him to death, which followed two other lethal injections that went awry earlier this year in Ohio and Oklahoma, intensified debate over the death penalty and prompted Arizona to suspend executions pending the review.
Abdeddaïm et al. [24] proposed an ASAP algorithm, and this algorithm scheduled tasks as soon as possible when there was available energy in the battery and suspended execution to replenish the energy needed to execute one time unit.
At a time when some other states are considering suspending executions, debating racial disparities in capital convictions or examining the wisdom of executing mentally retarded prisoners, Alabama officials remain firmly opposed to changes in the state's death penalty system.
The South African government has suspended executions indefinitely.
The state has suspended executions pending an investigation.
