When the state of Texas sets an execution date for a man on death row, a countdown starts.
People are gonna hear about me. They're gonna hate me. I get it. I'm just a convict in prison saying, "I'm innocent," and they're going, "Yeah, right, you lying piece of crap." Last year, I embedded with a team of capital defense lawyers.
They had a brief window to convince the courts that their client, one of Texas's most notorious serial killers, was actually innocent.
I watched them chase down new evidence, Did your sister tell you a little bit about why we're reaching out?
Confront alternate suspects. I don't remember claiming to kill people. I don't know. I need a lawyer. And try to convince a victim's mother that Texas had the wrong guy.
It's just that he said, "Well, I'm not guilty." Well, duh. I would say that too if I was facing the death penalty.
It wasn't that the lawyers didn't have a case to make.
I know two people fabricated testimony to get a guy executed.
It's just that they had so little time to make it. From Serial Productions, The Marshall Project, and The New York Times, an inside look at one of the most controversial parts of the criminal justice system as the clock ticks down. It's incomprehensible to me that this is gonna go down to the wire. The last 12 weeks. What's going on? A 5-part series on a deadline.
So we've got incredible news and crazy news.
Coming June 18th. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
In 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso. He has been on death row ever since. “The Last 12 Weeks” takes you behind the scenes as a capital defense team races against the clock to stop an execution 30 years in the making.
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