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June 27, 2025

Supreme Court Grants Reprieve to Condemned Texas Prisoner Minutes Before Lethal Injection
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The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on
Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal
injection. Ruben Gutierrez insists he was wrongfully convicted of a 1998
murder in Brownsville; he'll now have a chance to obtain DNA testing
that he says will prove his innocence.


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