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Texas' highest appeals court remanded the David Leonard Wood's serial killer death penalty case back to a trial court.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ordered a trial court to review a death row inmate's case after pausing the man's ...
Robert Moore July 30, 2025 Sign up for essential news about El Paso. Delivered to your inbox — completely free. The conviction of David Leonard Wood in a 1987 serial killing spree should be reexamined ...
David Leonard Wood was convicted of the 1987 serial killing spree, and now his case is going to be reexamined by the trial ...
David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison in Livingston, Texas ...
El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood is scheduled to be executed in March — nearly 40 years after he killed several teenager girls in the 1980s.
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.
David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison in Livingston, Texas ...
Convicted killer David Leonard Wood poses for a photo at death row in Huntsville, Texas, July 15, 2009. Credit: AP/Mike Graczyk ...
Dissenting judges expressed frustration over a lack of clarity on why the case of David Leonard Wood, whose execution in ...