1.   Only the governor is now in a position to stop the execution.

2.   Cypriot nationalists say the Queen should have stopped the executions of nine guerilla fighters arrested during the fight for independence.

3.   And when executions are stopped, innocent lives are lost.

4.   But Ginny Kerry, the mother of the victims, has asked the governor of Missouri, Bob Holden, to stop the execution of Richardson.

5.   But his attorneys left open the possibility that they would seek to stop the execution.

6.   For the first time, Missouri prosecutors and defense lawyers are working together to craft a law to stop executions of mentally retarded persons convicted of murder.

7.   Four years ago the American Bar Association said executions should be stopped until a greater degree of fairness and due process could be achieved.

8.   If they stop an execution, the justices are accused of delaying the process.

9.   In California, Cardinal Roger M. Mahoney has asked Davis to stop all executions until a similar study is conducted.

10.   In Nebraska, death-penalty supporters and opponents joined to pass a law last week that would stop executions for two years.