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

The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws ...

Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles.

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

The Supreme Court is considering whether Ruben Gutierrez, on death row for his role in a 1998 murder of an elderly woman, has ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain ...

The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the ...

Ruben Gutierrez is one of a rare group of death row inmates who have been granted repeated review by the high court.

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 ...

Gutierrez was condemned for the 1998 stabbing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville, on the state’s southern tip ...

Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester.  I made my way to the US Supreme Court press box for JURIST Monday ...