The court remains the execution of the man in Texas a few days before he dies by lethal injection

Austin, Texas – a Texas Court stopped on Tuesday the execution of a man who spent more than 30 years at Death Row and was prepared to die by lethal injection this week to kill six girls found in the desert near El Paso.

Was the second execution scheduled in the US, stopped on Tuesday after a federal judge stopped Louisiana The first execution of the row of death using nitrogen gaswho was going to take place next week.

In Texas, the command was another redemption for David Leonard Woodwhich in 2009 was about 24 hours away from execution, when it was stopped by the claims that it was intellectually disabled and, thus, ineligible for execution.

Subsequently, these statements were rejected by a judge, and Wood, 67, were established to die on Thursday. But the Criminal Court of Appeal in Texas, the highest criminal court of the state, issued an execution residence after its last appeal, which renewed its requests for innocence.

The yard put Wood’s execution in a break “until another order.” He did not develop the decision in a short order of three pages.

If Wood had been executed this week, he would have spent 32 years and two months in Texas death, the longest time in Texas was waiting before being sentenced to death.

The crimes of 1987 have remained unsolved for a few years, until the authorities say that Wood has been praised with a cell colleague that it was the so-called “desert criminal.” The bodies of the victims were found buried in superficial graves in the same area of ​​the desert, to the north -El El Paso.

The authorities said that Wood gave a walk to the victims and then led them to the desert, where he sexually assaulted them and killed them. The victims were Rosa Casio and Ivy Williams, both 23; Karen Baker, 21 years old; Angelica Frausto, 17 years; Desiree Wheatley, 15 years old; and Dawn Smith, 14 years old.

Two other girls and a young woman were also reported missing, but were never found.

Wood, a convicted sexual offender, who worked as a mechanic, has long kept the innocence.

“I didn’t do it. I am innocent of this case. I will fight, “Wood said in the recent documents submitted in his calls.

On March 4, the Grace and Parons Council in Texas refused a request to browse his death penalty in a lower sentence or to grant her 90-day redemption.

His lawyers have sought for years to have hundreds of DNA tested evidence after blood testing in 2011 clothing that Smith wore found a male DNA profile. The Office of Prosecutor General of Texas fought against new DNA tests, and various courts refused Wood’s request for it.

Prior to the decision of Tuesday, Gregory Wiercioch, one of Wood’s lawyers, said that when the authorities identified Wood as a suspect, they focused on him and not on the evidence they had.

“We tried to clarify the courts that he is innocent and we will see if someone listened,” Wiercioch said.