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A stay of execution (Law Latin: cesset executio, "let execution cease") is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order. [1] The word "execution" refers to the imposition of whatever judgment is being stayed and is similar to an injunction .
The Texas Supreme Court has spared the life of death row inmate Robert Roberson, granting a rare stay of execution as prison officials were poised to administer his lethal injection.. The Supreme ...
Most members of the state's Republican-led House of Representatives previously called for a stay of Roberson's execution, referencing a "junk science" law that should allow Texas prisoners to ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals subsequently overturned the stay after the prosecution appealed and ordered the execution to move forward. [58] [59] However, the Supreme Court of Texas intervened and temporarily halted the execution after Roberson's attorney and state lawmakers filed a last second appeal for a stay. [60]
A stay of proceedings is a ruling by the court in civil and criminal procedure that halts further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. [1] The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume proceedings based on events taking place after the stay is ordered. However, a stay is sometimes used as a device to postpone proceedings ...
UPDATE (10:20 p.m.) – Amanda Hernandez, a spokeswoman with TDCJ, announced that when staff told Roberson that his execution had been stayed, he was shocked. She said that he praised God and ...
Application for stay and on petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Holding; Courts cannot stay an execution on the basis of the then possibility that Congress will, in the future, enact a statute to enforce an international law. Court membership; Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices
A federal appeals court vacated a stay of execution that had temporarily halted the execution of Michael Tisius, scheduled for Tuesday at a prison in eastern Missouri.