Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row (PTFO Peabody Award Finalist)

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This episode was recently honored as a unanimous finalist for the prestigious Peabody Awards. But it's been 26 years since he was sentenced to death, and Charles Flores still maintains his innocence — while talking trash, playing fantasy football and making enchiladas on game day. Last fall, correspondent David Fleming visited Inmate No. 999299 at a notorious supermax prison in Texas, to learn about life when there isn't always next year. • Learn more about the case of Charles Flores https://www.freecharlesflores.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	All right, so hi, this is Pablo, by the way, this is not an ad.
0:33.6	This is me actually trying to explain why it is that the episode you've clicked on today is going to be the episode you're going to hear.
0:40.9	And the reason that I'm bringing you today's episode is not because when we ran it in November, it resulted in a Peabody nomination and all that, you know, very gratifying good stuff.
0:52.8	The reason I'm bringing you this episode today is because the story of Charles Flores,
0:58.4	the subject of this episode, just became a lot more urgent.
1:05.7	Yesterday, May 12th, 2025, the Texas Attorney General's office sent a letter to the trial court in the case of Charles Flores requesting that the judge said an imminent execution date for Charles.
1:19.9	His lawyer is going to file an opposition statement, but what she advises us is that it is quite likely that the legal fight of Charles Flores, the man you're about to meet here, has reached its end.
1:33.4	And so we're going to advise you here and then at the end of the episode to please visit free charlesflores.com.
1:41.4	Because my hope is that when you listen to his story, you'll know exactly why it is that we wanted
1:47.8	to make sure that you heard it.
1:52.5	So much of living under a death sentence is the unknown.
1:58.0	You know, we're sent here.
1:59.9	We were convicted and sent us to death
2:02.9	and sent to death row.
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