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

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

Wood has been on Texas Death Row for nearly four decades even though ... of anything,” Wood told USA TODAY on Feb. 26 during an interview at a Texas state prison north of Houston.

While on death row, he tithed his commissary funds, helped keep peace among the inmates and even served as an “informal ... he had planned to kill both Barbare and himself. In her first interview ...

While on death row, he tithed his commissary funds, helped keep peace among the inmates and even served ... In her first interview since the incident, Barbare, 59, who now goes by the name Rebecca ...

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

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

11:58 a.m. The execution will take place at the Broad River Secure Facility's death chamber, where both the electric chair and gurney for lethal injections are. The inmate is restrained in a metal ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.