The Last 12 Weeks
6/28/202642 min
In 1992, David Wood became El Paso’s most notorious convicted serial killer. He has been on death row ever since. More than 30 years later, his lawyers have just a few months to argue his innocence and stop his execution.
This is the first episode of a new five-part series from Serial Productions called “The Last 12 Weeks.” You can find the rest of the series by searching for “The Last 12 Weeks” on your favorite podcast player.
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Rachel Abrams· Host0:29
From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily on Sunday. Today, we've got a little something different for you because our colleagues over at Serial Productions have a new series out that we're excited to share. It's called The Last Twelve Weeks, and it follows a team of death penalty lawyers and their last-minute scramble to try to stop their client's execution in Texas. And what's kind of incredible about it is that the team at Serial managed to convince a team of death penalty lawyers to let them follow them around in the middle of an actual case. They put microphones in the room as the lawyers tried to argue their case to witnesses, to the media, to a victim's mother. And these are the kinds of behind-the-scenes conversations you rarely get to hear, and they are riveting. So we're sharing the first episode of the five-part series, a collaboration with The Marshall Project and hosted by reporter Maurice Chammah. You can find all episodes by searching for The Last Twelve Weeks wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, here's the show.
Maurice Chammah· Host1:28
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