President Barack Obama is attempting to block the execution in Texas of a Mexican man because it would breach an international convention and do "irreparable harm" to US interests.

The White House has asked the US supreme court to put the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia on hold while Congress passes a law that would prevent the convicted rapist and murderer from being put to death along with dozens of other foreign nationals who were denied proper access to diplomatic representation before trials for capital crimes.

The administration moved after the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, brushed aside appeals from diplomats, top judges, senior military officers, the United Nations and former president George W Bush to stay Leal's execution because it could jeopardise American citizens arrested abroad as well as US diplomatic interests.

Leal, 38, was convicted of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in San Antonio. Few question that he was responsible for the killing.

Investigators said a man has died while in the act of raping an elderly South Texas woman.

The Refugio County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Wright said the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his 77-year-old victim in the tiny coastal community of Tivoli.

Wright said the 5'-7", 230-to-250 pound man sneaked into the woman's house and raped her at knifepoint.
During the assault, he said he wasn't feeling well, rolled over, and died.

Gutierrez' body was sent to the Nueces County medical examiner in Corpus Christi for autopsy.

Gutierrez was a registered sexual offender on parole from a sentence for aggravated sexual assault and indecency with a child.

Tampa police are looking for a man investigators believe raped a woman on a renovated school bus In Ybor City.

Police found out about the attack after receiving a 911 call.

The alleged attack happened Friday at 7:30 a.m. in the area of 16th Street and 6th Avenue East.

The woman said on her Twitter page that she was taken to the hospital by police to be examined.

The suspect is described as a black man, 6-feet to 6-foot, 2-inches tall. Police said he has a dark complexion and short beard. He was last seen wearing a light blue shirt and tan shorts.

The alleged victim gave a description of the man on Twitter and tweeted that she thought she could identify him.

The alleged victim lives on a renovated school bus, police said. The bus also has a Twitter page.

A fugitive wanted in Tennessee on multiple counts of child rape and exploitation was captured Saturday near Matamoros, Mexico, and jailed in southern Texas. Donald Edward Lynch, 66, who has been profiled three times on the TV program "America's Most Wante

Investigators say the 17-year-old suspect is accused of entering the woman's home through a doggie door, then attacking and raping her at knifepoint. Police say the suspect drove off in the woman's Mercedes and was tracked down today by Oxnard police. Pol

CINCINNATI -- Police are looking for a rape suspect who escaped Tuesday night from a Roselawn correctional facility. Juan Romero Barahora had been in police custody at the Warren County Sheriff’s Office jail on a charge of first-degree felony rape.