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Kho, who was a Malaysian detained on death row for the murder of Chinese national Cao Ruyin, received a death warrant which ordered that his execution was to be carried out on 6 November 2015. Through his lawyer, Kho managed to suspend his execution while pending a newly filed last-minute appeal against his sentence.
The decision was the latest in a string of last-minute legal maneuvers to delay the killing. ... Roberson’s attorneys filed a petition to stay the execution with the US Supreme Court, asking the ...
Death warrants were signed for both men, but Hawkins was granted another stay of execution. [16] On February 10, 1993, Hawkins received his fourth execution date, but the courts were again asked to consider last-minute appeals. [17] Later that day, he was granted yet another stay of execution by the Supreme Court. [18]
The scheduled execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson for the murder of his 2-year-old daughter has been halted after the Texas Supreme Court issued a partial stay late Thursday night ...
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]
In April 2023, after a last-minute defense appeal, Collin County District Judge Benjamin Smith, a Republican, ordered a pause to the execution just seven days before it was supposed to take place ...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied last-minute attempts to halt the execution, including an application for a stay of execution and a request that it review a lower court's affirmation of ...
While the clemency process was still ongoing, Littlejohn's lawyers filed a last-minute appeal for a stay of execution, but the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the appeal. [49] Another appeal filed in federal court was also rejected hours before the execution. [50]