The Last 12 Weeks

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Negara Amerika Syarikat

Genre True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

Bahasa EN

Episod 1

Terkini 18.06.2026

In 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso, earning him the nickname the Desert Killer. More than 30 years later, his lawyers have one last chance to argue his innocence and stop his execution. The series follows a team of capital defense attorneys as they try to save their client’s life, with an extraordinary level of access to a capital case in its final stretch. The longtime death penalty reporter Maurice Chammah takes listeners into the room with the lawyers as the clock ticks down.

Episod

Episode 5: A Quiet Morning 18.06.2026 39min

Days before the execution, the defense team scrambles to respond to an unexpected ruling, while the lead lawyer makes what may be his final visit to David Wood on death row. Everyone waits to find out Wood’s fate.
Episode 4: David Wood 18.06.2026 30min

To justify sentencing David Wood to death, prosecutors argued that he was a convicted rapist turned serial killer. And yet, Wood has insisted all along that isn’t true. We head to death row to hear him tell us why. But not before a victim of his earlier crimes has her say about the kind of person she believes he is.
Episode 3: The Mother & The Informant 18.06.2026 43min

In the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push people to save David Wood’s life. The team’s deliberations lead to a key witness on his deathbed … and the mother of one of the Desert Killer’s victims.
Episode 2: The Whataburger Declaration 18.06.2026 45min

The way the state constructed the case, there’s no one big shiny piece of evidence for the defense to knock down. Instead, there are a million little threads to pull at. With less than two months until the execution, the lawyers comb through the evidence one last time, and a new witness offers unexpected revelations.
Episode 1: What If I Follow You Around? 18.06.2026 41min

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.
Trailer 15.06.2026 1min

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.