Sentence examples for temporary stay of execution from inspiring English sources

Once its justices have done that, they will either order a new sentencing trial or lift their temporary stay of execution and allow him to be executed.

Mr. Buck, 48, had been scheduled to be executed on Thursday evening, but the Supreme Court intervened, granting a temporary stay of execution pending a decision about whether it will review an appeal of his case.

With a temporary stay of execution, summer lasted one more hour.

The supreme court on Wednesday lifted a temporary stay of execution for Smulls, denying last-minute appeals.

He managed to stop the rot in Ohio, but it turned out to be a temporary stay of execution.

In 1995, he issued a temporary stay of execution for a convicted killer who was scheduled to die two hours later.

Although most received temporary stays of execution, all but two ultimately lost their appeals and were put to death.

Two Florida convicts who were scheduled to be electrocuted at 7 A.M. Tuesday were tonight granted temporary stays of execution until 3 P.M. Tuesday by Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.

The committee also urged the state Supreme Court to declare a moratorium, "pursuant to its inherent power to issue temporary stays of execution". There was no immediate comment from Rendell or the court, which appointed a committee to study racial and gender bias in the state's courts three years ago.

Time had nearly run out for Antonio Richardson when word came about 10 15 p.m. Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered a temporary stay of his execution.

An appeal has won him a temporary stay of deportation.