Super Bowl on Death Row: New “Pablo Torre Finds Out” Podcast Featuring Charles Flores, Dallas Cowboys Superfan who is Innocent on Texas’s Death Row
On the eve of this weekend’s Super Bowl, Pablo Torre of the award-winning sports podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out sits down with Charles Flores on Texas’s death row. In this remarkable episode, Mr. Flores talks about his beloved Dallas Cowboys, watching the Super Bowl on death row, and how he has been fighting to prove his innocence for over 25 years in a sensational case that turns on testimony by a hypnotized witness. In his words, “I believe in good…I just want a fair review.”
If you would like to listen to, watch, and / or share this new episode, “The Wrongfully Convicted Football Fan Who’s Running Out of Time,” it is available as a podcast on all audio platforms, as well as a video show on YouTube.
Pablo Torre’s previous podcast episode exploring how Mr. Flores has managed to follow the Dallas Cowboys while in solitary confinement on Texas’s death row was nominated for the prestigious Peabody Award in 2025.
Mr. Flores’s wrongful conviction resulted from the purported identification of an eyewitness, made during trial 13 months after the crime. But the jury did not know that immediately after the crime in January 1998, this same eyewitness had described two perpetrators who looked nothing like Mr. Flores, and she had also failed to pick his photograph out of a six-photo lineup. Her identification of Mr. Flores was made for the first time mid-trial, after she had been subjected to “investigative hypnosis” conducted by police involved in the underlying investigation, and only after she had been exposed, on multiple occasions, to Mr. Flores’s photo.
In 2023, the Texas Legislature, inspired in part by Mr. Flores’s case, outlawed evidence obtained from “investigative hypnosis” in criminal trials. But that law came too late to help Mr. Flores and he remains at risk of execution. In the coming days, Mr. Flores will be appealing his innocence claim to the United States Supreme Court.
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