Michelle Byrom's execution by lethal injection has been delayed. The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered that Michelle Byrom, on death row since 2000, get a new trial based on evidence that her son may have been involved.

Michelle Byrom was convicted of hiring a man to shoot her husband, Edward to death. Byrom said Edward was abusive. The contract was to take place at their home in Iuka in June 1999. Prosecutors claimed Byrom was trying to get the $350,000 from his estate and life insurance policy.

The state Supreme Court in Mississippi overturned Michelle Byrom conviction on Moday. Michelle Byron was sentenced to be executed in 2000 for arranging her husband's murder. Based on revelations about confessions that were kept from a jury and an alleged case of perjury, the Mississippi's Supreme Court tossed out Byrom's murder conviction and ordered a new trial and  a new judge.

In a new legal opinion, death row inmate Michelle Byrom's execution has been stayed as her capital murder conviction was reversed. The Michelle Byrom case has been remanded to the circuit court for a new trial, the opinion said.

David Calder, Michelle Byrom's lawyer said "We are very grateful that the Mississippi Supreme Court has granted Michelle Byrom's request for relief from her death sentence. This was a team effort on the part of the attorneys currently representing Michelle, and we believe that the court reached a just and fair result under the facts presented in this case."

Byrom was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2000 in Tishomingo County. According to the reports, Byrom tried to recruit her son in the killing of her husband, Edward 'Eddie' Byrom Sr. Edward Byrom Sr. was fatally shot on June 4, 1999.

Michelle Byrom was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection last week. She would have been the first executed in the state in seven decades. Michelle Byrom is now 57.

The Supreme Court opinion said the decision "is extraordinary and extremely rare in the context of a petition for leave to pursue post-conviction relief."

The former presiding justice of Mississippi's Supreme Court, Oliver Diaz, said the opinion is "actually kinda amazing." He wrote to CNN that "The lawyers filed a last ditch motion for additional post conviction relief. These are almost never granted. Defendants are limited to a single post conviction motion. It is extremely rare to grant and send back for a new trial."

Mississippi has one other woman on death row, but the state has not executed a woman since 1944.