State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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 ...

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

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.

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

The federal appeals court said the prosecution failed to disclose that a key trial witness was a paid informant.

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

NEW CUMBERLAND - As he rolls up in his patrol car on 4th Street, there’s Will pinning a man down, nodding for him to move on ...

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

If it seems like death penalty cases drag out in the courts already, new legislation introduced on Thursday would ensure that ...

The 39-year-old distinguished scientist died on Tuesday night after his neighbour pushed him to the ground and punched him ...