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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate pushing for DNA evidence tests

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he’s not a murderer.

SCOTUSblog · 15h

Court rules in favor of death row inmate

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the constitutionality of state laws governing DNA testing. […]

Virginia Lawyers Weekly · 8m

Justices revive death row inmate’s DNA testing claims

A Texas death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 due process claim challenging the state’s postconviction DNA testing procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in reversing a decision from the 5th Circuit.

20hon MSN

Justice Thomas unloads on SCOTUS for handing death row inmates 'a tool for obstruction' that will worsen 'already egregious delays'

For Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS had "no business intervening" in Ruben Gutierrez's DNA case and, as a result, handed death row ...

Courthouse News Service20h

Texas decades-old DNA testing fight falls short at SCOTUS

For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...

USA Today11mon

Texas set to execute Ruben Gutierrez in retired teacher's death on Tuesday. What to know.

By week's end, the country will have executed 11 death row inmates. Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez, 47, is scheduled to die by lethal injection sometime after 6 p.m. CT for the 1998 beating ...

The Mirror11mon

Death Row killer Ruben Gutierrez who brutally murdered woman, 85, stops execution with 20 mins to go

Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of killing an 85 year old woman in 1998 and has been on death row in Texas for more than two decades, but his lethal injection was halted at the 11th hour Skip to ...

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