U.S. Supreme Court stalls execution of 'Texas 7' member

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a man who was a member of the "Texas 7," a group of inmates convicted of killing a police officer on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum-security prison days earlier.

Patrick Murphy, 57, was scheduled to die at 6 p.m. CDT (0000 GMT) by lethal injection in the state's death chamber in Huntsville before the high court ruled that he must be granted his request for a Buddhist spiritual adviser in the execution chamber.