Little more than two weeks before death row inmate James Dailey was scheduled to be executed, a federal judge issued a stay that will keep Dailey alive until at least the end of December.

U.S. District Judge William Jung imposed the stay through Dec. 30 because new attorneys were appointed to represent Dailey on Oct. 1. Jung wrote that the attorneys in the Capital Habeas Unit of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida needed more time to review and make filings in the case.

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