Kim Kardashian West has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a stay of execution to a prisoner whose cause she has championed.The reality TV star turned criminal justice campaigner had called for a reprieve for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas inmate sentenced to death for murdering an 85-year-old woman in 1998.He maintains his innocence and supporters, including Kardashian West, have called on authorities to test DNA collected from the victim’s body in a bid to prove he is not guilty.Gutierrez was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, but the Supreme Court blocked his execution about an hour beforehand.Gutierrez’s lawyers successfully argued his religious rights are being violated because the Texan prison system.
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