The US Supreme Court temporarily halted a Texas man’s execution less than an hour before he was set to die by legal injection.
The Supreme Court’s three sentence order Tuesday gives Ruben Gutierrez more time to ask the high court to review his case.
Gutierrez and two others were convicted of the 1998 murder of Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Texas.
It’s the second time the Supreme Court has stopped Gutierrez’s execution. The justices in 2021 delayed his execution for the lower courts to consider whether he should be allowed to have a spiritual advisor in the execution chamber.
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