Sure… if my super-powers are such that I know he is 100% [strike] not guilty [/strike] innocent I’d do whatever it takes to save his life.
Further, based on his criminal history, I’d then act as judge and jury to determine where he belongs…on the street or locked up forever or something in between.
I think I’m going to have to let the guy die. I mean, the law was applied fairly and in good faith right? If I interfere I’m implying that it’s okay to disobey the law. That will be a bad precedent to have set once I take of over. And I will be taking over. Shortly.
If people think they can disobey the law, they’ll soon be disobeying MY laws. Then there will be killing do. Then more killing. Next thing you know, you’ve gone all Plutonian on the world and it’s time to find another planet. Best to let the law run its course. The kid was only going to live another sixty, seventy years anyway, right?
If you’ll excuse me I’ve got a planet to subjugate.
This. I’d go to the press, first, make as big a stink as possible—and, if I’m a publicly known (and loved) superhero, I’d start making implications that the governor is just bigoted against me, and is refusing to act purely out of spite and to make a show of flexing his authoritah.
After that, I could probably delay the execution long enough for political/public pressure to build by discretely sabotaging it. With Superman-level powers, I should be able to do it subtly enough that it’s not provable that I did it, or even that deliberate sabotage was done at all.
Failing all other methods, and/or if I’m driven to the “oh, fuck it” throw-badge-on-desk point (if I’m not an “I’m the God” type of Super to begin with), I’d probably bust the guy out shortly before he’s executed…and leave in his place some clearly guilty horrible prisoner who was only serving life because of a legal technicality—like they’d been extradited back to the US with the agreement that they not be executed; or they’d been sentenced to death, the state supreme court ruled that capital punishment was against the state constitution and commuted his sentence, but the state constitution was amended by the voters to restore the death penalty later the same year, etc.—whether or not I leave the replacement prisoner dead or not depends on how bad a mood I’m in when I make my little display.
I voted “I’d never have the problem, as I’d have stopped all executions already.” I am very anti-death-penalty, and with Supe’s Godlike powers, I should have no problem enforcing such a ban. One round of [hurling the US nuclear arsenal into the Sun*/debarking the crew of all 10 Nimitz-class ACs, then moving them (the ships, not the crews!) to the Sea of Tranquility in the shape of a hand giving the finger/some other not-violent-but-very-costly action] should put paid to any objections from even Texas.
*What potential side-effects? Sorry, I never saw that movie 