The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...
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 order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...