Death penalty or no death penalty, Thomas used the Ruben Gutierrez case to carry on his crusade of constitutional ...

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

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing in a bid to test evidence he says would block his execution. Ruben ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district attorney who refused to test DNA evidence.

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 was convicted of murder in 1999 under Texas’ “Law of Parties.” He says he had nothing to do with the killing.

Ruben Gutierrez’s lawyers argued that he had the right to have a Christian chaplain present during his execution. By Jenny Gross The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a Texas inmate on ...

Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez was only 20 minutes away from being executed when the U.S. Supreme Court granted his request to stay his lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville.

On June 16, 2020, just one hour and 10 minutes before the State of Texas was scheduled to execute 43-year-old Ruben Gutierrez for the 1998 murder of an 85-year-old Brownsville woman, the U.S ...

Ruben Gutierrez, 47, faces a planned lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison. Gutierrez's attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the ...