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 ...

T he 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 ...

Prosecutors said Gutierrez, 43, was attempting to steal more than $600,000 that Escolastica Harrison had hidden in her home in Brownsville, located in Texas' southern tip, when he killed her in 1998.

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 ...

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve to Ruben Gutierrez who was scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman.

The 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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 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 ...