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

surrounding the five year old conviction started to look disturbingly distorted. Prosecutors had pushed the case forward with a suspicious, almost desperate urgency. The lead prosecutor at the time, who had since been fast tracked into a judgeship as Judge Preston Douglas, had essentially built his political reputation on Gavin’s conviction.

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