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

was set to die by lethal injection at sundown.

But Gavin had stopped fighting the state. He had only one last request.

“I need to see my daughter,” he said, his voice worn thin and hollow after years of near total silence. “Just once. Please allow me to hold Chloe before they take me down the corridor.”

One of the floor officers, a veteran who had watched continue reading …