About this episode

The episode explores the efforts of a capital defense team to prevent an execution of a man convicted of multiple murders.

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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