Texas execution of 'desert killer,' on death row for 30 years, blocked by court
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 ...
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Stay granted for Texas death row inmate two days before scheduled execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate's murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...
Texas Inmate on Death Row for 27 Years Has Conviction Overturned
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...
Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...
Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
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New brief filed by former prosecutors urges new trial for Alabama death row inmate
Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...
South Carolina death row inmate to be executed by firing squad for first time in 15 years
CNN’s Ryan Young reports 67-year-old Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of a double murder, is scheduled to be executed in South ...
Death-row inmate deserves new trial, ex-U.S. Senator, former Alabama AG urge in ‘unusual’ request
In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.
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'I'm angry': Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent as execution nears
by far the nation’s deadliest state for Death Row inmates. “I’m accused of killing six people when an entire police force couldn’t find a single shred of evidence of anything,” Wood told ...
Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...
After Nevada prison brawl kills 3 inmates, 20 people are charged
Anthony Williams, 41, Connor Brown, 22, and Zacharia Luz, 42, were killed in the July 30 fight at Ely State Prison.