Supreme Court halts Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez for murder of 85-year-old woman. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY. ... Ruben Gutierrez's execution stay is 'devastating,' nephew says.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago. The move to halt Ruben Gutierrez's ...

This story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez on Tuesday, just ...

T he 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 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.

T he 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. Gutierrez spent ...

Ruben Gutierrez, 43, had been scheduled to die at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman in 1998.

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court grants a stay of execution by 6:00 this evening, 43-year-old Ruben Gutierrez will become the 570th human being put to death by the state of Texas since 1982.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve to Ruben Gutierrez who was scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman.

Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the Texas execution of Ruben Gutierrez on Tuesday, just over an hour before he was scheduled to die.