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 ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

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

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

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though no DNA evidence linked him to the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987. “I’m accused of killing six people ...

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 ...

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the ...

(JTA) — A stay of execution was upheld for a Jew on death row in Texas, one day before he was ... a federal court denied a request to block Murphy’s execution. In that filing, his attorneys ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that houses females on death row, among other inmates. Texas leads the country in executions and is among the ...

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 ...