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Supreme Court sides with Texas man on death row who's seeking DNA testing

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Ruben Gutierrez was sentenced to death for the 1998 killing of Escolastica Harrison at her home in Brownsville , Texas .

His lawyers have said there was no physical or forensic evidence connecting him to the killing.

In July , the high court granted Gutierrez a stay of execution 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.

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