BORN 🐣 : 1957 Convicted El Paso serial killer David Leonard Wood is scheduled to be executed in March 2025. This is nearly 40 years after he was accused of murdering young women and dumping their bodies in a Northeast desert. Wood known as the "Desert Killer," is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison, court documents state. The execution will take place after 5 p.m. MST. The 67-year-old Wood continues to claim he is innocent and is appealing his death penalty conviction. Wood will be executed by being injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital. He has been on Texas death row since Nov. 10, 1992, when he was sentenced to death. Wood was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of one of the girls and indicted on capital murder for five other girls whose bodies were found in a Northeast desert. The young girls were in their teens and early 20s. ...
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