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6/15/20262 min
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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First 90 secondsMaurice Chammah· Host0:01
When the state of Texas sets an execution date for a man on death row, a countdown starts.
David Wood· Soundbite0:06
People are going to hear about me. They're going to 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.
Maurice Chammah· Host0:16
Last year, I embedded with a team of Capitol defense lawyers. They had a brief window to convince the courts that their client, one of Texas' most notorious serial killers, was actually innocent. I watched them chase down new evidence.
Speaker 30:31
Did your sister tell you a little bit about why we're reaching out?
Maurice Chammah· Host0:35
Confront alternate suspects. I don't remember claiming killing people. I need a lawyer. And try to convince a victim's mother that Texas had the wrong guy.
Speaker 40:47
It's just that she said, well, I'm not guilty. Well, duh. I would say that, too, if I was facing the death penalty. Ha ha ha.
Maurice Chammah· Host0:55
It wasn't that the lawyers didn't have a case to make.
Speaker 50:59
I know two people fabricated testimony to get a guy executed.
Maurice Chammah· Host1:04
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 going to go down to the wire. The last 12 weeks. What's going on? A five-part series on a deadline.
Speaker 61:29
So we've