Two last-minute appeals have postponed the execution again, at least until Aug. 5.

Most of the 1,400 candidates spent today addressing meetings and making last-minute appeals for votes.

There were last-minute appeals yesterday either to back or boycott the whole operation.

He has filed a last-minute appeal with the Supreme Court.

"A last-minute appeal is such a formality that when it works like this, you're sort of stunned."

"Your race, on the other hand, has had a stay of execution- a last-minute appeal from a higher power, as it were."

In three earlier cases, he ignored or turned down the last-minute appeals of prisoners headed for the electric chair.

A last-minute appeal for help resulted in the festival being saved.

"Now at the eleventh hour he's made a last-minute appeal for Congress help to continue the war."

Second Chance made an unsuccessful last-minute appeal to legislators to save it from closure.