11.   He cannot halt the execution unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles first recommends a reprieve, commutation to a life sentence, or a pardon.

12.   He had pleaded with courts and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican presidential hopeful, to halt the execution.

13.   Texas figures to be the last place where executions are halted, Hall concedes.

14.   The American Bar Association has called on all states to halt executions while flaws in the criminal justice system are scrutinized.

15.   The court also failed to halt the execution of a third inmate so he could get a new DNA test that could have a bearing on his case.

16.   The legislative outgrowth of this tactical shift is the moratorium movement, which seeks to temporarily halt executions until the process can be improved.

17.   The report urged the United States to halt all executions until it can show that this ultimate punishment is doled out fairly.

18.   The state, one of half a dozen or so that still use the electric chair, had halted all executions after an electric malfunction burned a condemned man.

19.   Prejean said the petition is aimed at pressing the U.N. General Assembly to pass a resolution halting executions, then eventually banning them.

20.   A legal challenge to the law virtually halted executions last year.