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

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

The UK government is looking to Estelle prison for ideas - for ways to reduce reoffending and to bring down prisoner numbers ...

Texas’ highest criminal court on Tuesday blocked Thursday’s scheduled execution of David Leonard Wood, the man sentenced to die for the 1987 deaths of six girls ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

Texas has executed a man convicted of killing two men as part of a 2004 dispute with his boss at a strip club.

Texas is not soft on crime. It has seen the execution of 600 prisoners in the past 40 years, including two so far this year – ...

The previous bill asked the state for half a billion dollars ... He has been serving his sentence at Huntsville Unit, the oldest prison in Texas. Constructed 176 years ago, it is made mostly ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death ...