A Texas man convicted in the beating death of an elderly retired schoolteacher in her own home says he didn't take part in her murder and that DNA testing would prove his innocence. Ruben Gutierrez, ...

Texas is set to execute its third death row inmate this year on Tuesday, just two days before Alabama is set to put a man to death. By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates.

HOUSTON, Texas -- A Texas man who has long sought DNA testing claiming it would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman decades ago was scheduled to be ...

Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez came within 20 minutes of his death by lethal injection before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Tuesday evening, indefinitely staying his execution for the murder of ...

The Supreme Court halted a scheduled Texas execution late on Tuesday, the day Ruben Gutierrez was set to be put to death for the 1998 murder of an elderly woman in Brownsville. Gutierrez has spent the ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...