1.   Cellucci and Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift, both former death-penalty opponents, also insisted their bill had safeguards to prevent the execution of an innocent person.

2.   Cellucci would not say that the safeguards can absolutely prevent the execution of an innocent person.

3.   Critics of Shell contend the company has considerable influence over the Nigerian government and could have done much more to prevent the execution of Saro-Wiwa.

4.   Jones and his staff are now trying to prevent the execution of the three inmates whose sentences have been upheld.

5.   Later, he is powerless to prevent the execution.

6.   Pryor and others also said they were concerned that death penalty opponents would use the rules to prevent executions and eventually eradicate capital punishment.

7.   Walvick and others who talked to Turner in his final days say he kept insisting he had the power to prevent his execution but would not use it.

8.   A British expert on death said Friday he is testifying in an effort to prevent the execution of an English-born convicted murderer in a Georgia electric chair.

9.   A succession of central- and local-government regulations has been enacted, it says, which effectively prevent the execution of work on the public highway.

10.   Advocates say the judicial system has enough safeguards, including automatic Supreme Court reviews of death sentences, to prevent the execution of innocent people.