The execution of a sentence of death may be stayed from time to time for stated periods by the supreme judicial court, or a justice thereof, pending the final determination of any judicial question arising in or out of the case in which the sentence is imposed.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 279, § 64
Judicial stay of execution of death sentence; final determination of judicial questions
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