WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ohio's governor granted temporary reprieves to two death row inmates just hours after a federal appeals court blocked the execution of one of them -- adding to the mounting confusion over the state's capital punishment system. Lawrence Reynolds is on death row for killing his neighbor in  1994 during a robbery in suburban Cleveland. Earlier Monday, the state's attorney general's office asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Thursday's execution of Lawrence Reynolds Jr. to go forward as scheduled. However, Gov. Ted Strickland announced he would delay Reynolds's execution until March, at the earliest. Another death row inmate, Darryl Durr, scheduled to be executed in coming weeks, also was granted a reprieve until at least April 2010.
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Lawrence Reynolds Jr. was set to be executed Thursday for killing neighbor in 1994
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Action comes hours after Ohio attorney general asked for execution to go through
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Federal appeals court had blocked his execution, citing failed attempt last month
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Strickland delayed Romell Broom's execution after technicians couldn't find vein
The conflicting moves came after the botched execution attempt of @placeholder last month, which raised serious questions about the state's lethal injection procedures.