How to Use stay of execution in a Sentence

stay of execution

noun phrase

• As a result, Mills filed a motion this past April asking the court to reopen his appeal and grant a stay of execution.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 May 2024
• Owens also petitioned for a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2024
• Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal for a stay of execution.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 May 2023
• But more damning, and more urgent, is that the club has been managed so poorly that this game, this win, may be nothing but a stay of execution.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• Nearby was the bronze statue of Scheherazade, the 9th-century queen who used her wit and her invention to win a stay of execution for one thousand and one nights.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Germany just pushed the European Union to give a stay of execution to new combustion engine cars in 2035.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• An Alpine Brown bear Italian officials said killed a jogger near the man's home this month has been captured and is getting stay of execution.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man on Tuesday, 20 minutes before he was scheduled to face a lethal injection.
  — CBS News, 16 July 2024
• On Thursday, attorneys for the state of Florida filed a response opposing the stay of execution, court records show.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected a request for a stay of execution, though the case could come before them again based on other legal challenges.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Motorsport will be using it in 2026, and European Union law is using it as a stay of execution for the combustion engine.
  — Hazel Southwell, Ars Technica, 5 May 2023
• That led Greitens to grant a stay of execution in 2017 and to convene a panel to investigate this evidence.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 25 Sep. 2024
• The justices Wednesday rejected his request for a stay of execution, although the case could come before them again in the final hours based on other legal challenges.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Johnson’s lethal injection was carried out after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution, with the three liberal justices dissenting.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Smith and her fellow ESG lovers have sent letters to the mayor pleading for a stay of execution — the publicly accessible park is slated to be closed Sept. 10 — offering alternative locations in the neighborhood for housing.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2024
• Idaho’s first execution in nearly 12 years will continue as scheduled later this month after the state’s highest court Friday denied a stay of execution for Thomas Creech and dismissed two of the longtime death row prisoner’s state appeals.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2024
• Apparently, Hobbes has reportedly almost disappeared before but received a stay of execution.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024