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Texas is set to execute its third death row inmate this year on Tuesday, just two days before Alabama is set to put a man to death. By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 was convicted in the 1998 beating death of 85-year-old retired schoolteacher Escolastica Harrison. ... Texas man set to be executed Tuesday for 1998 murder of an elderly schoolteacher.
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.
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court halted Gutierrez's execution just over an hour before he was set to die on the basis of an appeal he had filed saying that a new Texas policy banning religious ...
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court halted Gutierrez's execution just over an hour before he was set to die on the basis of an appeal he had filed saying that a new Texas policy banning religious ...
A Texas man convicted in the beating death of an elderly retired schoolteacher in her own home says he didn't take part in her murder and that DNA testing would prove his innocence. Ruben Gutierrez, ...