Pablo Torre Finds Out
Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row (PTFO Peabody Award Finalist)
13 May 2025
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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Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
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Hi, this is Pablo. By the way, this is not an ad. This is me actually trying to explain why it is that the episode you clicked on today is going to be the episode you're going to hear. 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 very gratifying good stuff.
The reason I'm bringing you this episode today is because the story of Charles Flores The subject of this episode just became a lot more urgent. 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 set an imminent execution date for Charles. 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. And so we're going to advise you, here and then at the end of the episode, to please visit FreeCharlesFlores.com. Because my hope is that when you listen to his story, you'll know exactly why it is that we wanted to make sure that you heard it.
So much of living under death sentences is the unknown. You know, we're sent here, we were convicted and sentenced to death and sent to death row to have our lives taken from us, to be executed, you know, to be legally murdered. And that's pretty heavy, man.
Dave Fleming, Zeit ist von der Essenz mit diesem Episode in vielen sehr echten Wegen. Danke, dass du hier bist. Mein Vergnügen, wie immer. Dieser hat angefangen, wie viele tolle Dinge, mit einem Website, den ich noch nie gehört habe.
Es hat angefangen, mit mir, ein Website, ein Database zu kommen, wo du die letzten, letzten Statements jedes Gefängnisses, das von dem Staat Texas verurteilt wurde, lesen kannst. Me being me, I went down that rabbit hole, started reading them. It is a gut-wrenching, awful, exhausting experience.
The very basic premise of there's a publicly available website that records the last things that every executed prisoner on death row in the state of Texas says. You're mesmerized, right?
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