A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be killed by lethal injection, a major win for the 67-year-old who has for decades maintained his innocence.
The Texas court of criminal appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, issued a brief ruling on Tuesday afternoon pausing the killing of Wood, whose lawyers presented new evidence supporting his claims of wrongful conviction and pleaded for DNA testing they say could prove his innocence.
