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

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

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 ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

courts in two U.S. states on Tuesday blocked the imminent executions of death row inmates. The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being ...

For nearly four decades, David Leonard Wood has languished on Texas Death Row, convicted of the brutal murders of six women and girls in El Paso — despite a glaring absence of DNA evidence ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... during trial that the “case in the totality points to David Wood.” “It’s clear that the signature aspect of these ...

David Leonard Wood has had his second execution stayed ... he would have spent 32 years and two months on Texas’ death row, the longest time a Texas inmate has waited before being put to death.

David Leonard Wood has been on death row for close to four decades ostensibly for murdering six women and girls in El Paso, Texas. But he has maintained his innocence from the beginning.