Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso, Texas in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial evidence. He's set for execution March 13.

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 has had his second execution stayed by a court. In 2009, he was about 24 hours away from execution when it was halted over claims he is intellectually disabled.(Mike Graczyk ...

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 ...

A shock wave struck El Paso in the late 1980s as nine women and girls disappeared. A serial killer had buried six of his victims in shallow desert graves in Northeast El Paso. Three of the girls ...

David Leonard Wood was a 33-year-old ex-convict living in Northeast El Paso when he was eventually linked to the murder of girls and women. He is scheduled to be executed on March 13. Jan.