NATION IN BRIEF : LOUISIANA : Supreme Court Stays Execution

Convicted killer Dalton Prejean won a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court of his scheduled midnight execution. Prejean, 10 days shy of his 30th birthday, had been scheduled to die in the electric chair in Angola, La., for a murder he committed when he was 17. But the justices barred his execution until they decide whether they will hear his formal appeal. Prejean would have been the first person executed under the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that authorizes executions of people who committed capital crimes when they were 16 or 17.