An appeals court panel in Oklahoma City...

An appeals court panel in Oklahoma City stayed the execution of convicted murderer Charles Troy Coleman, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. The three judges of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled further arguments for April 15. Coleman, 37, was condemned for the February, 1979, shotgun slaying of John Seward, 68. Defense attorneys argued that Coleman was denied his rights to a fair trial and a jury of a cross section of the community because potential jurors who said they did not believe in the death penalty were excused.