The death penalty case against David Leonard Wood, who has had two executions stayed, will continue in an El Paso courtroom decades after he was originally convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of several young women.

A status conference is set for Wood, 68, on Sept. 15 before Judge Dick Alcala in connection with the killings of six El Paso-area girls and women in the late 1980s.

The hearing will be held via video conference, according to court documents. An order of court setting filed by Alcala is unclear whether Wood or just his attorney, Gregory W. Wiercioch, is required to appear at the hearing. Wood is currently jailed at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas.

Wiercioch declined to comment on the hearing.

It is also unclear if th

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