Washington - The US Supreme Court late last night issued a stay of execution for a condemned Canadian convict, Joseph Stanley Faulder, just 30 minutes before he was due to be put to death, a court spokesman said.
Earlier at the United Nations, The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Mary Robinson, said the planned execution in Texas was another example of the death penalty turning into normal practice in addressing criminality in the US.
In Oklahoma City, a Vietnamese refugee who stabbed two children and his wife to death in 1982 was executed by lethal injection last night.