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Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...
If it’s left to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who recently made an unprecedented intervention in the case, Roberson ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...
For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...
As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.
The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state's laws governing DNA testing. The majority opinion was written by ...
A Texas death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 due process claim challenging the state’s postconviction DNA testing ...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion that Texas death row prisoner Ruben Gutierrez should be permitted to continue his lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's post ...
For the second time in as many years, the Supreme Court intervened as Texas prisoners sought to navigate the Lone Star ...