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Gabriella, the English mastiff scheduled to be executed for biting the wife of Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield and another woman, has won a reprieve.

A decision issued Friday by Hingham District Court would allow the dog to be sent instead to a New York shelter, where she would serve life, without parole, the Boston Globe reported.

Gabriella was ordered euthanized by Hingham selectmen after a lengthy hearing in late October because of two biting incidents, both of which took place at her owners’ art gallery in Hingham Square.

The first, in June 2008, was when Gabriella punctured and scratched the thigh area of Hingham resident Stacey Wakefield, wife of the Red Sox pitcher. Gabriella’s owners, Megan and Robert Ullman, were criminally charged after the incident, but the charges were later reduced to a civil complaint. They were ordered not to bring the dog to their shop.

A year later, Braintree resident Krista Brewer was bitten in the abdomen — also at the gallery.

After selectmen voted to have the dog put down, the board received so many calls that it issued a statement late last month explaining the reasons for its decision.

The town’s animal control officer, Leslie Badger, after the death sentence was reached, worked to find a shelter in which Gabriella could live out her life instead. The town was against moving the dog to a kennel in nearby Rockland.

At Friday’s hearing, though, Badger said she’d located a shelter in New York — not named — where the 8-year-old mastiff would be accepted. “She would be a lifer and live out the rest of her life there,” Badger said.

Hingham District Court Clerk Magistrate Andrew Quigley, while affirming the town’s decision to euthanize the dog, added a condition that allows Gabriella to be moved to the shelter in New York.

Gabriella’s owners, who had hoped Gabriella could stay alive closer to home, have 10 days to appeal the decision.