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

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing in a bid to test evidence he says would block his execution. Ruben ...

Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 Brownsville murder of an elderly woman. ... any evidence tested that did not match Gutierrez’s DNA would not prove his innocence.

Death penalty or no death penalty, Thomas used the Ruben Gutierrez case to carry on his crusade of constitutional ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Ruben Gutierrez has spent over a decade trying to overturn his death sentence for a 1999 murder. At the Supreme Court next week, he has to convince the justices his fight isn’t ...

Ruben Gutierrez has been seeking DNA tests on multiple crime-scene items from the murder case against him for more than a decade. His legal team says a Texas law blocking his effort is ...

Gutierrez's lawyers argued that his case was similar to that of Rodney Reed, another longtime death row inmate in Texas who also won a round at the Supreme Court in his fight for DNA testing that ...

opinion Editorials. The Catch-22 that could cost Ruben Gutierrez his life There’s no good reason to deny a man on death row a DNA test of evidence that could exonerate him of capital murder.

May 28—A state district judge has denied a request by Brownsville death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez seeking a DNA test that he claims will clear him in the 1998 murder of an 85-year-old ...

It looks very likely that the state of Texas will execute Ruben Gutierrez on July 16 without ever having DNA tested fingernail scrapings, bloodstains, and hair that he says will prove he is not a ...

Ruben Gutierrez, 47, faces a planned lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing of 85-year-old Escolastica ... Lower courts have previously denied Gutierrez's requests for DNA testing.