Update: On March 11, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed David Wood’s execution. The court has not yet announced whether it will send the case back to the trial court to review the evidence of Wood’s ...

Convicted El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood is scheduled to be executed in March — nearly 40 years after he was accused of murdering young women and dumping their bodies in a Northeast desert.

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 Paso.

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 hourlong ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded David Leonard Wood's death penalty case back to a trial court. Wood's attorneys allege constitutional violations, including claims of innocence and ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The attorney for a man convicted of six murders in El Paso decades ago has filed a last-minute appeal to stop his execution scheduled for just next week. Greg Wiercioch has ...