This is Sarah Canick.
I've spent countless hours sitting in courtrooms and falling around attorneys. I've interviewed judges and chambers and inmates in prison.
“But never have I gotten close to the stunning front row seat that awaited me when I listened to our new show.”
It's called The Last Twelve Weeks. It comes out on June 18th. Here's the trailer. When the state of Texas sets an execution date for a man on death row, a countdown starts.
People 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." They're going, "Yeah, right. You're lying in peace 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 cereal 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. Clearly killed people. I need a lawyer. And try to convince a victim's mother that Texas had the wrong eye.
“It's just that she said, "Well, I'll knock the old D."”
Well, duh. I would say that too if I was facing the death penalty. The 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 cereal productions, the Marshall Project, and the New York Times,
an insight look at one of the most controversial parts of the criminal justice system as the clock ticks down. It shouldn't come up and he had to go to me that this is going to go down to the wire. The last 12 weeks, but it's going up. A five-part series on a deadline.
So we've got incredible news and crazy news.
Coming June 18th, listen wherever you get your podcasts.
