71.   Williams was granted a stay of execution last week that was scheduled to expire at midnight.

72.   In New Delhi, human rights activists late Friday urged Sharma to grant a stay of execution.

73.   A British-born convicted murderer was granted a stay of execution Thursday less than an hour before he was to be put to death in the electric chair.

74.   A butcher who murdered two people with a meat cleaver during a massacre of Sikhs nearly a decade ago has been granted a stay of execution.

75.   The decision came hours after the parole board in the southern state of Georgia refused to grant a stay of execution, saying the punishment fit the crime.

76.   The Florida Supreme Court said on Tuesday it had granted a stay of execution to a condemned Cuban refugee whose cause the Pope had taken up.