Gattis, 49, who was convicted for the May 1990 murder of his girlfriend Shirley Slay, is set to die by lethal injection early Friday. But on Sunday, the Delaware Board of Pardons recommended by a 4-1 vote that Gattis’ sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole. Gov. Jack Markell is now considering whether to accept that recommendation and spare Gattis’ life or allow the execution to proceed.

Wright, 39, who was convicted of the January 1991 slaying of liquor store clerk Phillip Seifert, had his conviction and death sentence tossed out on Jan. 3 by Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr., a ruling prosecutors appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court last week.