The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.

Ruben Gutierrez wants to be able to sue prosecutors to compel them to test evidence that he says will prove he did not kill a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Texas death penalty case against Ruben Gutierrez on Monday. Gutierrez was ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard from a lawyer for Valley man Ruben Gutierrez who is on death row. A jury sentenced him to death for the 1998 Brownsville ...

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Ruben Gutierrez. Texas was set on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, to end its more than four-month delay in executions due to the ...

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder and other charges tied to the 1998 robbery and killing of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison. Prosecutors said Gutierrez and two others plotted to ...

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. Gutierrez has maintained his innocence and says DNA from several pieces of evidence ...

Minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was scheduled to be put to death by the State of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to pause it. At issue, Gutierrez said he was denied access to DNA to prove ...

Texas argues that Ruben Gutierrez doesn’t have the right to bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the state law because even with the DNA evidence he could still be sentenced to death for ...

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A Texas death row inmate is taking his request for DNA testing all the way to the Supreme Court. Ruben Gutierrez was convicted for the murder of an 85-year-old woman and sentenced to death.