David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...

The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal ...

David Leonard Wood, who has been on death row for more than 32 years, was scheduled to be executed Thursday in the deaths of ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

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

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

Facing an execution date of March 13, time is short. USA TODAY Death Row Reporter Amanda Lee Myers had an exclusive sit-down ...

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

There are 174 people on Texas’ death row, and seven of them are women. We can’t wait to welcome you to the 15th annual Texas Tribune Festival, Texas’ breakout ideas and politics event ...