Texas execution of 'desert killer,' on death row for 30 years, blocked by court
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 ...
Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
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Texas 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood gets rare stay of execution: What to know
The victims are: 14-year-old Dawn Marie Smith, 15-year-old Desiree Wheatley ... March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of ...
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Texas prison staff falsified temperatures records, investigation finds
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
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Texas prison staff falsified records about temperatures behind bars, internal investigation finds
The investigation, which homed in on recordkeeping at the Mark W. Stiles Unit in Beaumont over the summer of 2022, found ...
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Texas Death Row inmate David Wood 'Desert Killer' maintains innocence days before execution
Wood is scheduled to be executed after 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville ...
Investigation finds Texas prison staff falsified records about temperatures
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported unsafe conditions behind bars.
'It's been long enough': Victims' families anxious as 'Desert Killer' execution date nears
The execution of serial killer David Leonard Wood will end a nearly 40-year saga for nine El Paso families, but the victims' ...
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Texas Death Row inmate David Wood 'Desert Killer' maintains innocence days before execution
Wood is scheduled to be executed after 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison ... and Dawn Marie Smith, 14, were found in shallow graves ...
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Justice Department is expected to slash public corruption unit, AP sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit ...
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Brittany Holberg, inmate on Texas death row for 27 years, has her conviction tossed by federal appeals court
A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson said the agency had no comment on Holberg's case. Holberg is currently being held at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit, a Gatesville prison that ...