Texas set to execute Ruben Gutierrez in retired teacher's death on Tuesday. What to know. Gutierrez was convicted in the 1998 beating death of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison, who was targeted ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez on Tuesday, just over an hour before he was scheduled to die.

Texas is set to execute Ruben Gutierrez on Tuesday after he spent more than 20 years on death row and -ruben-gutierrez/">a decade fighting for DNA testing</a> he claims could prove his innocence.

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 ...

Ruben Gutierrez, 47, is set to be executed Tuesday at a state prison in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston. That would make him the third inmate put to death in the state this year and ...

Ruben Gutierrez was condemned for the 1998 killing of Escolastica Harrison, which prosecutors said was part of an attempt to steal $600,000 she'd hidden in her Texas home because of a mistrust of ...

Who is Ruben Gutierrez? The Texas man is set for execution in retired schoolteacher's murder Gutierrez was a young married man with two children and a bad cocaine habit when he and two other men ...

Texas Plans to Execute Man After Courts Refuse DNA Tests Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of murder in 1999 under Texas’ “Law of Parties.” He says he had nothing to do with the killing.

Ruben Gutierrez, 47, is set to be executed Tuesday by lethal injection at a state prison in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston. That would make him the third inmate put to death in the ...

Ruben Gutierrez is a man who has been on death row in Hunstville, Texas for over 20 years for a murder that he claims he did not commit. On Tuesday, July 16, the Texas man is set to be executed by ...

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 ...