Introduction to The Last Twelve Weeks

This is Sarah Kanig If you've listened to Sirial, you probably know I've done my fair share of criminal justice reporting I've spent countless hours sitting in courtrooms and following around attorneys I've interviewed judges in chambers and inmates in prison 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 eighteenth. Here's the trailer When the state of Texas sets an execution date for a man on death row D starts. peopleeople 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, Yeahah, 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 killed people I name have a lawyer and try to convince a victim's mother that Texas had the wrong eye It's just such he said, well, I'm not guilty. Oh but I'm d. I would sayve that too if I was facing the death penaltty. 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 going to go down to the wire The last twelve weeks. What's going on five part series a deadline. So we've got incredible news and crazy news.