The process of appeals up to the Supreme Court will then postpone the execution.
The process of appeals on every aspect of this case will likely continue for years, making it hard to predict how much of the award will ultimately stand.
The Associated Press said that after Nebraska switched to lethal injections, the process of appeals meant the supply of sodium thiopental - used as part of the cocktail of drugs - expired and officials could not restock its reserve.
It is so difficult to get Social Security disability; the process of appeals and hearings often takes more than a year, during which applicants often have no income and no health care.
Mr. Senor said that the criteria for screening out former Baathists -- a relatively high rank in the party -- would remain the same, but that the process of hearing appeals and allowing exceptions would change.
"We're in the process of filing an appeal," he said.
Rather than being the last resort option, after negotiations with the local authority have broken down, the process of planning by appeal has become a tactic in itself.
Teitiota, his wife and their three New Zealand-born children were in the process of mounting their appeal when he was arrested.
The Uruguayan Football Association is in the process of preparing an appeal over the length of the current suspension and it remains to be seen whether Suárez's public apology will now serve to reduce the sanction.
We're in the process of preparing the appeal for next year for the humanitarian programme, and we anticipate that it will be around the same level, or close to $300 million that UNICEF will need for 2012.
