As of March 2013, 21 inmates were executed after 1976.
He would be the third inmate executed by the federal government in 40 years.
Under today's order, the inmate cannot be executed until the constitutional question is resolved.
An inmate was executed early today for his part in an 11-day prison siege that left four people dead.
Between 1924 and 1964, 362 inmates were executed by electrocution.
He is confident that none of the 127 inmates executed under his watch were innocent.
Three inmates have been executed in Idaho after 1977.
The three inmates executed in Pennsylvania since then had also decided to forgo appeals.
She is brought back down to earth when she learns that a fellow inmate has been executed.