David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is ... 2025. Wood has been on Texas Death Row since 1992, when he was convicted of killing six women and girls. Wood, 67, has maintained his ...
LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades when no DNA evidence links him to the murders of six women and girls in El ...
David Leonard Wood was a 33-year-old ... Aug. 8 – An execution date is set for August 20. Aug. 19 – Wood’s execution was halted by a Texas court 24 hours before the state was scheduled ...
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
David Leonard Wood was a 33-year-old ex-convict living in Northeast El Paso when he was eventually linked to the murder of girls and women. He is scheduled to be executed on March 13. Nov. 3 ...
Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso, Texas in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial evidence. He's set for execution March 13.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.
On March 13, 1988, David Leonard ... its type to be tried in Texas and it will create new law," said Norbert Garney who represented Wood in 1992. He was sentenced to death Nov. 30, 1992.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' brief order on Tuesday recognized the claims in death row inmate David Leonard Wood’s appeal and granted an indefinite stay of his execution. Credit ...
16, 1987, and her body was found Nov. 3, 1987. David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer" has been on Texas death row since Nov. 10, 1992, and is scheduled to be executed on March 13 ...