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.

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 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 ...

T he 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. Gutierrez spent ...

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 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, 47, has been on death row in Huntsville since 1999 after he was convicted of capital murder for the killing of Escolastica Harrison, an 85-year-old woman who Gutierrez and two ...

In July 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez's execution minutes before he was taken to the death chamber in July 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Erin Scott Audio recording is ...

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.

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.

Ruben Gutierrez has fought unsuccessfully for DNA testing of evidence that he says would prove he did not kill Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Texas, in 1998. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...