Supreme Court Grants Texas Man Stay of Execution Just Before His Scheduled Lethal Injection

Supreme Court Grants Texas Man Stay of Execution Just Before His Scheduled Lethal Injection
Death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas—The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening. The inmate has long maintained DNA testing would help prove he wasn’t responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.

The nation’s high court issued the indefinite stay shortly before inmate Ruben Gutierrez was to have been taken to the death chamber of a Huntsville prison.