Supreme Court halts Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez for murder of 85-year-old woman Gutierrez was set to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, 25 years after he was convicted of murdering ...

Ruben Gutierrez, 47, was scheduled to be executed Tuesday just after 6 p.m. CT before the high court issued the stay pending a lower court ruling regarding the inmate's arguments over DNA testing.

T he 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 Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal ... U.S. Supreme Court halts Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil ...

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 ...

Supreme Court grants stay in Texas execution of man seeking DNA tests Ruben Gutierrez has been seeking DNA tests on multiple crime-scene items from the murder case against him for more than a ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The execution of Ruben Gutierrez was halted when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a stay just minutes before he was set to die at 6 p.m.

Supreme Court halts Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez for murder of 85-year-old woman. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY. ... Ruben Gutierrez's execution stay is 'devastating,' nephew says.

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 and ...