The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution less than an hour before a Texas inmate was set to die by lethal injection, a "devastating" development for the family of the victim in the case ...

The Supreme Court halted on Tuesday the execution of Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutiérrez at the last minute. It did so after agreeing to consider a writ of certiorari, legal language used to ...

The Supreme Court halted a scheduled Texas execution late on Tuesday, the day Ruben Gutierrez was set to be put to death for the 1998 murder of an elderly woman in Brownsville.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening. The inmate has long maintained DNA testing would help ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a last-minute stay of execution to a Texas man who for more than a decade has requested DNA testing to prove his innocence in a 1998 killing. Ruben Gutierrez ...

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death in 1999 for the stabbing and beating murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison during a home robbery. The Supreme Court stayed his execution on Tuesday.

Supreme Court grants death row inmate last minute stay of execution Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder for the 1998 killing of a retired teacher ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he’s not a murderer.

Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez came within 20 minutes of death by lethal injection before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Tuesday evening. Here's why.

The Supreme Court halted a scheduled Texas execution late on Tuesday, just minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was set to be put to death for the 1998 murder of an elderly woman in Brownsville.