Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent

Tennessee's death row has been on hold for five years. Four inmates are now scheduled to die.
Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.
81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what would have been one of the first two executions in 15 years as the state shifts its posture on capital punishment.
'I'm angry': Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent as execution nears
Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial evidence. He's set for execution March 13.
TN Supreme Court sets execution dates for 4 death row inmates, first set for May
Tennessee is expected to resume its death penalty soon, after executions were halted for years while the state's process was reviewed.
Louisiana's oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions," according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
Texas Death Row inmate David Wood 'Desert Killer' maintains innocence days before execution
Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies were found strangled and raped in a Northeast El Paso desert. Wood is scheduled to be executed after 5 p.
Louisiana death row inmate seeks to halt execution as state unseals nitrogen gas protocol
Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to ...
Death by firing squad set to resume in the US – but no matter the method, all means of execution come with a troubling history
Hanging was the execution method of choice throughout most of American history, and it was used in America’s last public execution in 1936, when Rainey Bethea was put to death in Owensboro, Kentucky.
How South Carolina's execution of a condemned killer by firing squad will unfold
Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...
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Death penalty case revived in federal courts, raising questions about Louisiana execution methods
The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...
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Louisiana death row inmate dies before scheduled March execution
Attorneys are challenging Louisiana’s new execution method in federal court on behalf of Hoffman and nine other Louisiana ...
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Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate
Glossip’s case previously reached the Supreme Court in 2015, when he and two other Oklahoma death row inmates ...
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In first for state, South Carolina death row inmate elects to die by firing squad
Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the ...