A federal judge has stayed the scheduled Jan

A federal judge has stayed the scheduled Jan. 18 execution of Jose Amaya-Ruiz, a Salvadoran convicted of stabbing a pregnant Tucson woman to death in 1985. The inmate is entitled to a federal hearing to determine whether he is mentally competent for execution, according to the ruling issued Friday by Senior U.S. District Judge William D. Browning. Amaya-Ruiz was declared mentally incompetent in 1998, for the 3rd time, and sent to the state hospital in Phoenix.