31.   The appeal could delay the execution for more than a year.

32.   The court delayed the execution until tests determine whether Moore is mentally retarded.

33.   The execution was delayed because technicians had trouble inserting the IV, according to prison officials, but no witness saw what happened.

34.   The Justice Department, which oversees the federal Bureau of Prisons, has the authority to delay the execution without a court order.

35.   The ruling was a devastating blow to the defense lawyers, who had expressed optimism on Wednesday that the courts would delay the execution.

36.   Under pressure from European leaders, Turkey has delayed his execution.

37.   President Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to delay the execution.

38.   A hearing is tentatively scheduled Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that asks the court to delay the execution.

39.   A convicted killer whose execution was delayed in the final hours over a possible conflict of interest involving the governor was again headed for the death chamber Friday.

40.   A court delayed the execution of convicted killer Robert Clarke on Tuesday, just three hours he was scheduled to hang.