Hours Before His Execution, a Death Row Inmate Asked to See His 8-Year-Old Daughter One Last Time-Then She Whispered Something That Made the Warden Halt the Execution

toward the observation window, his chest heaving as tears streamed down his sunken cheeks. “I didn’t do this! I can prove it now! Lock these doors, I can prove it!”

The officers rushed into the room at once, hands on their batons, certain the condemned man was suffering a mental breakdown in his final hours. But Gavin didn’t resist them. He stayed on continue reading …