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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals remanded a death penalty inmate’s case to trial court after granting him a stay of execution two days before he was scheduled to be put to death in March.

In the brief order released on Wednesday, the court ordered that David Leonard Wood’s 1992 conviction return to trial court for the development of eight claims he made to the court in February. Labeled the “Desert Killer” in news coverage at the time, Wood was accused of killing six girls between the ages of 14 and 24 and burying them near El Paso in 1992. The bodies of Karen Baker, Rosa Maria C

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