5:38 p.m. local time: The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a temporary stay of execution, which means the execution is delayed until the court issues another order.
The state has until midnight to start the execution or face having to go back to the Alabama Supreme Court to set a new execution date.
This isn't the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay of an execution at the last minute.
In several of the other executions the stay was lifted in time for the execution to proceed later in the evening.
Source: SCOTUS, January 25, 2018
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