The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

Texas is getting ready to perform its third execution of 2025 on Thursday while the man set to be executed seeks to have that ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

Facing an execution date of March 13, time is short. USA TODAY Death Row Reporter Amanda Lee Myers had an exclusive sit-down ...

David Leonard Wood, who has been on death row for more than 32 years, was scheduled to be executed Thursday in the deaths of ...

Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

Frustration grows for the mother of one of the victims found in a Northeast El Paso desert as the man convicted in the ...

The case of a victim’s mother and one of the longest-serving death row prisoners shows how capital appeals can seem both ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called "Desert Killer" and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being El Paso's so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence of six murders in a recent ...