The United States Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Mark Schwab. The order can be found here. Schwab was scheduled for execution at 6pm tonight. If the execution had gone forward Schwab would have been the first inmate executed under Florida's new lethal injection protocol.

Ron Wood's article for the Associated Press can be found here.

This stay was issued in connection with the U.S. Supreme Court's direct review of the Florida Supreme Court's decision, discussed here, not the separate federal suit that was the basis for the district court stay lifted by the Eleventh Circuit this morning. The Florida Supreme Court, unlike the Mississippi Supreme Court in the Berry case, considered the claim on the merits, so the independent state ground noted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Berry is not applicable.