James Harvey Callahan, sentenced to death for the 1982 rape and murder of

James Harvey Callahan, sentenced to death for the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Suzanne Howelmurder, won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. The Supreme Court’s brief order did not detail why it granted the stay.
This would have been the nation's 1st execution since September, when the high court agreed to consider whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.