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.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago. The move to halt Ruben Gutierrez's ...

This story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez on Tuesday, just ...

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Ruben Gutierrez's execution about an hour before he could have been executed. Gutierrez's attorneys had argued his religious rights are being violated because the ...

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 ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's DNA testing ...

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court grants a stay of execution by 6:00 this evening, 43-year-old Ruben Gutierrez will become the 570th human being put to death by the state of Texas since 1982.

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

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 ...