The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied ... but the 81-year-old inmate died Saturday from what the state said was natural causes.

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 ...

David Leonard Wood, 67, known as the convicted "Desert Killer ... Key witnesses have probably died. Do the witnesses still around even have a good recollection of what happened in the late ...

In Texas, the order was another reprieve for David Leonard Wood, who in 2009 was about 24 hours away from execution when it was halted over claims he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible ...

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 ...

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

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...