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Kim Kardashian seems to have done it again, as an inmate she’d been supporting was granted a stay of execution – with only an hour to go.The reality star – who is currently studying law – has celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a stay of execution for Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas inmate sentenced to death for murdering an 85-year-old woman in 1998.Criminal justice campaigner Kim – who has helped free numerous inmates and has been championing the stories of many others – had called for a reprieve and urged on authorities to test DNA collected from the victim’s body in a bid to prove Ruben’s innocence.The inmate maintains he isn’t guilty however he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, with the Supreme

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

Kim Kardashianon Tuesday thanked the Supreme Court for granting convicted murderer Ruben Gutierrez a stay of execution just one hour before he was scheduled to die.The reality star-turned-criminal justice reform advocate celebrated the news on social media, writing: 'Thank you Supreme Court of the United States for granting a Stay of Execution for Ruben Gutierrez! Now his case will go back to the lower courts to decide the issues with his case!'While Gutierrez was convicted of the murder of a 85-year-old woman in 1998, Kim and other activists claim that he was wrongfully convicted.He had been set to die at 6 p.m.

Kim Kardashian has hailed the Supreme Court's decision to grant a stay of execution to a prisoner whose cause she has championed.

Kim Kardashian West has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a stay of execution to a prisoner whose cause she has championed.

Kim Kardashian has called on the Governor of Texas to intervene in the case of a Death Row prisoner scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and prison reform advocate, who is studying for a law degree, has been championing calls to review evidence in the case of Ruben Gutierrez, who was convicted of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a robbery in 1999.Lawyers for Gutierrez, who maintains his innocence, have been seeking DNA testing to be conducted on the murder victim’s body, after claiming authorities failed to run tests at the time, and used the argument as part of their basis for requesting a stay of execution.However, their request was denied on Friday, and now, Kardashian is voicing her support