A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death...

A federal judge in Knoxville issued a stay for death row inmate Stephen Michael West, less than 10 hours before his scheduled execution by electrocution. U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier issued the stay after West changed his mind in the morning and signed a document saying he wants to pursue his federal appeal, after all. The order stays the execution until April 30, the deadline the judge set for West's lawyers to file that federal appeal. West, 38, has been imprisoned since 1986 for the stabbing deaths of a woman and her 15-year-old daughter in rural Union County, north of Knoxville.