Supreme Court to Consider Texas Death Row Inmate’s Appeal

The stay to halt the execution of Ruben Gutierrez by lethal injection was issued 20 minutes before it was scheduled to be carried out.
Supreme Court to Consider Texas Death Row Inmate’s Appeal
Death row inmate Ruben Gutierrez. Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP
Matthew Vadum
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on July 25 that it will consider on Sept. 30 whether to hear the death row appeal of Ruben Gutierrez, who was convicted in the 1998 murder of a mobile home park manager in Texas.

Mr. Gutierrez denies guilt and argues that DNA testing of the physical evidence would clear him. He says a federal appeals court erred when it added additional conditions to the Supreme Court’s existing precedent governing post-conviction DNA testing.