On January 11, Cleve Foster, the first person scheduled to be executed in Texas in 2011, received a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. He was convicted of the 2002 murder of Nyaneur “Mary” Pal. The Court did not give a reason for the stay. Read more.
You can read the Supreme Court order at:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011111zr.pdf
(Thanks to StandDown Texas for providing these links.)