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

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

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

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction ...

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

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 ...

A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...