A Virginia man, who was scheduled to be executed tonight, has been granted a few more months to live.

Governor Kaine postponed the execution for legal reasons.

Christopher Scott Emmett murdered a co-worker in Danville in 2001.

He was scheduled to be executed tonight at 9 p-m.

But Governor Kaine has postponed it until October 17th, because Emmett still has an appeal pending in the US Supreme Court.

Earlier today, four justices voted to grant Emmett a stay of execution.

Kaine released this statement today, "The irreversibility of an execution and the fact that four justices of the court believe a stay is needed to consider the appeal warrant my intervention in this case."