at the last minute

Defence lawyers said she suffered a mental breakdown and wanted to die with her children but left the car at the last minute.

He was set to be the first person in the US to be executed for a murder related to "shaken baby syndrome", but legal challenges, prompted by some public outcry, paused the execution at the last minute last month.

He switched venues at the last minute to throw press off the scent, and confiscated the recordings.

Allegheny County, which contains Pittsburgh, historically counts faster than Philadelphia—though Philadelphia has, at the last minute, decided to add faster ballot-counting machines to its fleet.

Alabama and Virginia have attempted to purge thousands of voters at the last minute based on the canard that ineligible immigrants are among them.