The Indonesian authorities granted a stay of execution to Ms. Veloso on the day she was to be executed after the Philippine government requested her assistance in a human trafficking case involving a woman who surrendered to the Philippine police that Tuesday.
Snell was to be executed within hours.
During the Indonesian retaliation that followed, she was made to kneel and was to be executed.
Minutes before the prince was to be executed, Monther's father pardoned the killer.
He was freed in August 1945, just days before he was to be executed.
He also paid tribute to his wife, Ethel, who was to be executed along with him.
Ms. Lawal was to be executed as soon as she had finished weaning the child.
The documents were disclosed by the Justice Department on May 11, five days before Mr. McVeigh was to be executed.
In April an Iranian mother pardoned the man who had killed her sonjust moments before he was to be executed.
Less than an hour before he was to be executed, in 2010, the United States Supreme Court delayed his punishment.
DR. MERKEL: Do you have any knowledge that one of the French generals at Königstein was to be executed upon the orders of Panziger in November 1944?
