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

her  legal pad. “It was a business deal.”

But another detail was even darker and far more troubling.

Gavin’s wife, Nora Cole, had worked as an exceptionally careful financial auditor within the family company. In the three weeks before her reported death, Nora had quietly flagged dozens of suspicious internal transfers, keeping copies on an encrypted continue reading …