 The foreign medics say they are innocent |
However, a mediating body - the Gaddafi Foundation - has reportedly agreed a financial settlement with the children's families.
This could see the death penalties overturned by Libya's High Judicial Council at a later date.
The imprisonment of the medics has caused an international outcry.
They insist they are innocent of deliberately giving tainted blood to the children at the Benghazi hospital in 1998.
In recent months, the European Union has stepped up diplomatic efforts to have the medics freed.
The United States has also been involved, with President George W Bush appealing for their release in June.
Fifty-six of the 438 children infected with tainted blood at the Benghazi hospital have since died.
Diplomatic efforts
The six medics were found guilty and sentenced to death twice, first in 2004 and again in 2006 following a court appeal.
It is their final appeal in the case which has gripped public attention in both Libya and Bulgaria.
During their trial, one of the doctors who helped first isolate the HIV virus, Luc Montagnier, testified that the hospital epidemic began before the foreign medics started working at the hospital.
On the Libyan side, the families of the infected children have demanded the maximum punishment.
The government in Tripoli is caught between its wish to repair ties with the West and to defend its own legal system, the BBC's Nick Thorpe says.
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