Supreme Court grants Texas bishops’ request to halt execution of inmate
The Supreme Court blocked Ruben Gutierrez's execution around an hour before he was due to be executed because Texas had denied the condemned man's request to be accompanied by a Catholic priest in the execution chamber. Gutierrez's application for stay of execution stated his belief that the presence of a "chaplain in the execution chamber
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