41.   The state Prisoner Review Board issues a confidential recommendation to Edgar, who usually announces his decision on clemency the evening before a scheduled execution.

42.   Writers from around the world gathered on Tuesday to protest the scheduled execution of U.S. journalist and black militant Mumia Abu-Jamal, and called for a retrial.

43.   Writers from around the world protest in Paris Tuesday against the scheduled execution of an American journalist and black militant, Mumia Abu-Jamal.

44.   Amnesty International Japan issued a statement condemning the hangings and called on the country to halt all scheduled executions and abolish the death penalty.

45.   And the two men avoided one bone of contention, the scheduled execution Thursday of a dual US-British national in Georgia for murder.

46.   Amnesty International Japan issued a statement condemning the hangings and called on Tokyo to halt all scheduled executions and abolish the death penalty.

47.   Virginia Governor George Allen Thursday spared the life of a murderer three hours before his scheduled execution, citing serious questions about the reliability of evidence against him.

48.   One woman had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment only hours before her scheduled execution in the state of Illinois.