The U.S. Supreme Court granted on Tuesday a stay in the execution of Ruben Gutiérrez for the 1998 murder of an 85-year-old woman in Brownsville in 1998.
The decision was published just minutes before the hour set for the execution. It determined to grant the suspension "pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari," legal language to refer to a request for a higher court to review the case after it was tried in a lower court.
