Supreme Court Halts Texas Execution as Man Seeks DNA Testing to Prove Innocence
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic, eleventh-hour decision, the U.S. Supreme. Court issued a stay of execution for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas inmate who has long maintained his innocence in the 1998 murder of an 85-year-old woman. The court’s intervention, announced mere minutes before Gutierrez was scheduled for lethal injection, comes as he seeks further DNA testing that he believes will exonerate him. Gutierrez was convicted 25 years ago for the brutal killing of Escolastica Harrison …