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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...

A Texas woman who's been sitting on death row for 27 years for the brutal murder of an 80-year-old man had her conviction tossed after an astonishing admission was made about a key witness in her ...