Ruben Gutierrez
On September 5, 1998, in Brownsville, Texas, an 85-year-old elderly woman named Escolastica Cuellar Harrison (February 10, 1913 – September 5, 1998) was robbed and murdered by a group of three men, who stabbed her 13 times with two screwdrivers and stole her money, and Harrison died from her injuries. Through police investigations, all three robbers were arrested, but before the trial process, one of them, Pedro Gracia, absconded while out on bail and he remains on the run to this day.
The remaining two murderers still held in custody, Ruben Gutierrez and Rene Garcia, were both tried for capital murder and convicted in 1999; Garcia was sentenced to life in prison while Gutierrez was sentenced to death. Throughout the subsequent years on death row, Gutierrez maintained his innocence and stated that he never killed Harrison in spite of his confession to the robbery, and he is currently appealing against the death sentence. Gutierrez was nearly executed several times before his execution was delayed by appeals in relation to his claims of innocence and other issues.
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