 The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before his planned lethal injection in the killing of an elderly woman decades ago. The nation's high court issued the stay about 20 minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was to have been taken to the Huntsville, Texas, death chamber for execution. The 47-year-old inmate was condemned for the 1998 stabbing of 85-year-old Esco Lostica Harrison.