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 ...

In July, the high court granted Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

For Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS had "no business intervening" in Ruben Gutierrez's DNA case and, as a result, handed death row ...

The BriefThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3, allowing Texas death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez to sue a district attorney over ...

For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...

In a 6-3 ruling Thursday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court said federal courts can review Ruben Gutierrez’s challenge to ...

Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz is responding to a new development in a death penalty case out of Brownsville. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme ...

By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates. Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez, 47, is scheduled to die by lethal injection sometime after 6 p.m. CT for the 1998 beating death of ...

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of killing an 85 year old woman in 1998 and has been on death row in Texas for more than two decades, but his lethal injection was halted at the 11th hour Skip to ...