USLegal Reporter

Following the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision Thursday, which reversed a district court order to stay the lethal injection execution of Mark Dean Schwab pending the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Baze v. Rees, the U.S. Supreme Court, also on Thursday, stayed the execution of Schwab, pursuant to his filing a writ of certiorari, shortly before he was scheduled to be executed.

Source: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/11/us-supreme-court-stays-execution-of.php

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