The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life.

Ruben Gutierrez wants to be able to sue prosecutors to compel them to test evidence that he says will prove he did not kill a ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain ...

The Supreme Court appeared swayed by a Texas death row inmate’s argument he has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws ...

Gutierrez was condemned for the 1998 stabbing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville, on the state’s southern tip ...

The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the ...

Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles.

The Supreme Court is considering whether Ruben Gutierrez, on death row for his role in a 1998 murder of an elderly woman, has ...

Ruben Gutierrez is one of a rare group of death row inmates who have been granted repeated review by the high court.

Steven Nelson has spent more than a dozen years on Death Row in Texas and is to be executed by ... that I did not commit when all the DNA and legal proofs have proved that I didn't kill anybody." ...

(JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a Jew on death row in Texas ... court case also involving DNA was resolved. That case was brought by a different Texas prisoner, Ruben Gutierrez. “ ...

Two Texas death row inmates in the last year were given court ... who had been living with her maternal grandparents, after undergoing DNA testing. He said he had gone to sleep with her and ...