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  "description": "In the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push to save David Wood’s life. ",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T10:02:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "The Last 12 Weeks",
    "David Wood",
    "defense attorney(s)",
    "Criminal Defendants",
    "Defense",
    "Death Sentence",
    "Podcast",
    "Serial Podcast",
    "Capital Punishment",
    "Executions",
    "Texas",
    "Death Row",
    "Death Penalty"
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  "textContent": "Listen to the full series.\nEpisode 3 of “The Last 12 Weeks,” a podcast from The Marshall Project, Serial Productions and The New York Times, follows David Wood’s lawyers as they make their final push to stop his execution.\nWith six weeks left before the execution date, the lawyers need to exhaust every avenue for their client — which means getting in the middle of some messy human dramas, with complicated stakes all their own.\nThe lawyers drop in on a long-forgotten alternate suspect at a nursing home, make repeated attempts to reach a key witness on his deathbed, and visit one of their toughest critics: the mother of one of the Desert Killer’s victims.\n",
  "title": "The Defense Lawyers Approach a Victim’s Mother"
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