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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he’s not a murderer.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.

The Supreme Court stayed the execution of Ruben Gutierrez in Texas on Tuesday, less than 30 minutes before the state was slated to carry out a death sentence by lethal injection for the 1998 ...

Supreme Court rules for Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to block execution Ruben Gutierrez is on Texas death row in the murder of an 85-year-old woman in 1998.