Supreme Court blocks Texas man's execution as he seeks DNA testing
The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked Texas from executing a man convicted of stabbing a retired schoolteacher as he attempts to secure DNA testing that he claims would remove him from death row.
Ruben Gutierrez, 47, was scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening after being sentenced to death over the 1998 murder of Escolastica Harrison.
In a brief order without any noted dissents, the Supreme Court granted Gutierrez’s last-minute, emergency request to temporarily put his execution on hold.
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