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 did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday delayed the plans of the state to executed its longest-held death row inmate.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, court records ...

A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

The execution date for a death row inmate and Tom Green County native dubbed the “Desert Killer” who was convicted of ...

KILLEEN, TEXAS- A 14-year-old female student at Roy J. Smith Middle School, roughly 74 miles from the state's capital, was ...

A federal appeals court has reversed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...

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

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

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.