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

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Two hundred miles away, in a quiet Dallas suburb glazed by steady rain, retired defense lawyer Iris Thorne sat alone in her home office, surrounded by aging case files and cold cups of coffee.

At sixty eight, Iris had stepped away from courtrooms, but she had never escaped the shadows left by her past. Early in her career, she had failed continue reading …