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.

On March 13, 1988, David Leonard Wood, known as the "Desert Killer," denied killing nine El Paso-area victims, saying, “I will make these people kill me before these people ever make me say ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victims' families grow frustrated with stay of execution for convicted 'Desert Killer" David Leonard Wood. El Paso families awaits ruling for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the fate of Wood's ...

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 ...