Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood’s execution, which had been set for this week, was cmitigateed by a Texas requests court on Tuesday.
Wood, 67, has spent proximately 33 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the endings of six girls and youthful women set up buried in the desert proximate El Paso. The court put Wood’s execution on paparticipate “until further order,” without elaborating in their three-page order.
Six of the nine members of the court made that decision, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth telled. Judges Mary Lou Keel and Gina Parker disconcurd with staying Wood’s execution and Judge Bert Ricdifficultson, who had heard all of Wood’s requests in trial court since 2011, did not join.
This was another postpone for Wood, who was previously set for execution in 2009 when it was put on helderly about 24 hours beforehand over claims he was intellectupartner disabled and thus ineligible for execution. Those claims were tardyr refuteed by a appraise, and Wood had been set to die Thursday.
Undated photo of David Wood, who has set to be carry outd this week after spfinishing more than 30 years on death row. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via FOX 4)
The 1987 killings remained unrepaird for disjoinal years until authorities say Wood bragged to a cellmate that he was the so-called “Desert Killer.” The victims’ bodies were set up buried in shapexhibit graves in the same desert area northeast of El Paso.
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FILE – Convicted ender David Leonard Wood poses for a photo at death row in Huntsville, Texas, July 15, 2009. (Mike Graczyk, File)
Authorities shelp Wood gave rides to the victims and then drove them into the desert, where he intimacyupartner attacked and ended them. The victims were Rosa Casio and Ivy Williams, both 23; Karen Baker, 21; Angelica Frausto, 17; Desiree Wheatley, 15; and Dawn Smith, 14.
Two other girls and a youthful woman were also telled leave outing but were never set up.
Paperlabor from David Wood’s prison file. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via FOX 4)
Wood, a repeat convicted intimacy offfinisher who labored as a mechanic, has extfinished conserveed his innocence.
“I did not do it. I am bfeebleless of this case. I’ll fight it,” Wood shelp in recent write downs filed in his requests.
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Wood’s execution was the second cmitigateed in the U.S. on Tuesday after a federal appraise stopped Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was to get place next week.
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
