THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, May 17, 1996                   TAG: 9605160455
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RICHMOND                           LENGTH: Short :   21 lines

APPEALS COURT DELAYS TUGGLE'S EXECUTION

A federal appeals court Thursday stayed Lem Tuggle's execution to give his lawyer time to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal.

Tuggle, the only surviving member of a six-inmate gang that pulled off the largest death-row escape in U.S. history in 1984, had been scheduled for execution June 6.

KEYWORDS: DEATH ROW MURDER CAPITAL PUNISHMENT VIRGINIA

STAY OF EXECUTION

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