WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
A Mississippi death row inmate received a last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, adding to a series of reprieves since the justices last month agreed to rule on the lethal injection method.
The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for Earl Wesley Berry
19 minutes before he was set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Central Time (7 p.m. EDT) at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the prison said.
Berry had eaten his last meal and said goodbye to family members but at the time of the stay had not been moved to the execution chamber just a few feet (meters) from his cell, said Tara Booth, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
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