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(CNN) -- A flurry of last-minute legal maneuvers Tuesday spared, for now, the life of John Ferguson, a Florida death row inmate who suffers from mental illness and at one point called himself the 'prince of God.' 

Ferguson, a diagnosed schizophrenic convicted of killing eight people, was scheduled to get the lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET at a Florida State Prison. 

But an appeals court in Atlanta granted an emergency stay of execution Tuesday night. 

Florida officials then asked the Supreme Court to allow the lethal injection to proceed. Just before midnight the high court denied Florida's request, keeping in place the stay of execution, according to court documents. 

Some had questioned why authorities would kill a man who suffered from mental illness. 

Laurel Bellows, the president of the American Bar Association, released a statement earlier Tuesday saying she was concerned about how thoroughly Ferguson's competency was evaluated. 

"The American Bar Association is alarmed that Florida is poised to execute John Ferguson, a man diagnosed as severely mentally ill for more than 40 years, before the constitutionality of his execution is fully evaluated." 

Chris Handman, one of Ferguson's attorneys, told CNN. "We think the court should intervene to stop that execution from going forward." 

Handman said a court had earlier found that Ferguson was mentally ill and had delusions that caused him to think he is the "Prince of God." 

Ferguson is on death row for the murders of eight people in Hialeah and Carol City, Florida, in the late 1970s.  (End of story)

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Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What was given by an appeals court Tuesday?
Guess: an emergency stay of execution

Question: Where?
Guess: in Atlanta

Question: Who received it?
Guess: John Ferguson

Question: Is he on death row?
Guess: yup

Question: Where?
Guess: Florida

Question: Does he have an illness?
Guess: yes

Question: What kind?
Guess: mentally ill

Question: Did a doctor say he's ill?
Guess: yes

Question: What is the name of his illness?
Guess: schizophrenic

Question: How long has he had that label?
Guess: 40 years,

Question: Who is Laurel Bellows?
Guess: the president of the American Bar Association

Question: How does she say the Bar feels about this?
Guess: They are alarmed

Question: When did she say it?
Guess: Tuesday

Question: Who is his lawyer?
Guess: Chris Handman

Question: What does he feel the court should do?
Guess: intervene

Question: And do what?
Guess: stop that execution from going forward

Question: Who did he murder?
Guess: eight people

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: when?

the late 1970s