Texas ? A man condemned for killing his parents avoided the nation’s busiest death chamber Thursday night when he won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court, which had already agreed to review another state’s lethal injection procedures.

Attorneys for Carlton Turner Jr., 28, had appealed to the high court hoping that its planned review of lethal injection procedures in Kentucky, the same process used in Texas, could keep him alive.

His case is being watched as an indicator of whether executions in Texas could be halted until the court rules on the Kentucky case next year.

In a brief order, the court said it had granted his stay of execution but made no mention of its reasons for stopping the punishment. The order came less than two hours before the death warrant would have expired at midnight CDT.

“All I can say is all glory to God,” Turner told prison officials as he was being returned to death row.