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 33 years on death row for the crimes.

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

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 ...

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

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

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

David Wood, who was scheduled to be executed in Texas on Thursday, has maintained for decades that he is not the so-called "Desert Killer." ...

David Leonard Wood has been on death row in Texas for nearly four decades after being convicted of killing six women and ...

The 1975 murder of a Maryland woman was finally solved with the help of an old cassette tape and the mugshot of the victim, authorities announced Tuesday.