It’s normal when people tend to go missing on a day-to-day bases. When police notice a pattern in the disappearance of young women, it’s time to investigate quick and effectively to prevent future cases. The man convicted of these crimes should face whatever punishment the judge orders against him.
Between September of 1987 to mid March of 1988, nine young women went strangely missing in El Paso.
In 1992, David Leonard Wood was convicted and charged with six of the nine murders by a grand jury in Dallas, Texas. The six teenage girls and young women’s bodies were found in shallow graves in the Northeast El Paso desert. Detectives said five of the bodies were in one grave while the last victim was about a third of a mile away.
Detectives also found the women undressed predicting the killer probably sexually assaulted them before taking their lives.
In August, Wood went back to court stating he shouldn’t have been charged due to false DNA testing. The convicted killer’s execution was delayed two years ago due to attorney’s claiming Wood’s is mentally disabled.
To many residents of the city, Wood should receive the death penalty. As far as mental disability, he probably went into a weird after shock. It’s sad that some human beings have the state of mind to think killing another is right. To be able to live with yourself and keep doing wrong isn’t normal.
In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that mentally disabled people should not be pushed to the death penalty because it violates the Constitution.
The convenience in testifying that a person has a mental disability should be thrown out of the courts. He took six lives away. maybe even more. Most of the victims didn’t even get to start their lives while he did. Wood had been previously convicted of indecency with a child, rape of a child, and sexual assault. He definitely deserves to be killed.
The man is intelligent and is using the judicial system to his advantage by trying to claim that he is mentally disabled and, by law, cannot be sentenced to the death penalty. Wood should be proven competent and guilty as charged. He knew exactly what he was doing when he committed each crime and in all these cases he should be sentence to death.
