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

to save an innocent young defendant from the  death chamber, a failure that had haunted her sleep for more than thirty years.

When a local news bulletin interrupted regular programming to report Gavin Cole’s emergency seventy two hour stay of execution, Iris turned toward the screen at once. A photograph of Gavin from his trial appeared. Iris recognized continue reading …