Texas Death Row prisoner David Leonard Wood’s execution, who had been established this week, was stopped on Tuesday by a Court of Appeal in Texas.
Wood, 67, spent almost 33 years in the death cell and was planned to die due to fatal injection this week about the murders of six girls and young women who are buried in the desert near El Paso. The court put the execution of Wood on a break “to further order”, without working out in their command of three pages.
Six of the nine members of the court made that decision, Fox 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth reported. Judges Mary Lou Keel and Gina Parker did not agree with the remaining of the execution of Wood and Judge Bert Richardson, who had already heard the profession of Wood in court since 2011, did not participate.
This was another delay for Wood, which was previously set for implementation in 2009 when it was put on hold about 24 hours in advance because of the claims that he was intellectually handicapped and was therefore not eligible for implementation. Those claims were later rejected by a judge and Wood was set up to die on Thursday.
Undated photo of David Wood, who was executed this week after spending more than 30 years in the death cell. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Fox 4)
The murders in 1987 remained unresolved for a few years until the authorities say that Wood brought against a cell mate that he was the so -called “desert killer”. The bodies of the victims were found buried in shallow graves in the same desert area Northeast of El Paso.
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File – convicted murderer David Leonard Wood poses for a photo in Death Row in Huntsville, Texas, July 15, 2009. (Mike Graczyk, File)
Authorities said that wood gave rides to the victims and then drove them in the desert, where he Sexually abused and killed. 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 young woman were too reported missing But have never been found.
Paperwork from the prison file of David Wood. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Fox 4)
Wood, a repeated convicted sex offender who worked as a mechanic, has long retained his innocence.
“I didn’t do it. I am innocent about this case. I will fight against it,” Wood said in recent documents that were appealed in his appeal.
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The execution of Wood was put on Tuesday the second in the US after a federal court stopped the first execution of Louisiana with the help of nitrogen gas, which would take place next week.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
