Before David Wood’s capital trial in 1991, the state had three pieces of evidence tested for DNA. ... executive director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences.

On March 13, Texas is set to execute David Wood for a series of killings that occurred in 1987. The case was full of tragedy but devoid of reliable forensic evidence. DNA evidence suggests Wood ...

David Leonard Wood has been on death row for close to four decades ostensibly for murdering six women and girls in El Paso, Texas. But he has maintained his innocence from the beginning.

Ira David Wood III, the founder and executive director of Raleigh's Theater in the Park, was hospitalized after suffering a minor heart attack this week. Posted 2024-09-13T21:22:56+00:00 - Updated ...

Had Wood been executed this week, he would have spent 32 years and two months on Texas' death row, the longest time a Texas inmate has waited before being put to death.. The 1987 murders remained ...

LIVINGSTON, Texas - David Leonard Wood is angry. He’s angry that he’s been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades when no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Convicted killer David Leonard Wood poses for a photo at death row in Huntsville, Texas, July 15, 2009. Credit: AP/Mike Graczyk. By The Associated PressMarch 12, 2025. Share.

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.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of David Wood on Tuesday, two days before it was scheduled to take place. The stay was in response to evidence of Wood’s innocence and various ...