Texas to execute man convicted of killing elderly woman during robbery

Ruben Gutierrez is set to die at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) at the state’s death chamber in Huntsville for the 1998 murder of Escolastica Harrison, 85.As of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court was considering a request by lawyers for Gutierrez, who is Catholic, for it to stop the execution so justices could consider an appeal challenging the constitutionality of a Texas policy that bans chaplains and other religious advisers from the death chamber.