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

flying to his collar.

Judge Douglas’s pen snapped between his fingers, spilling blue ink across his palm.

“This meeting is over,” Iris Thorne declared, her voice carrying the extraordinary, unwavering authority of a woman who had finally found her justice. “And the state’s execution of Gavin Cole has now been formally and permanently halted by the Texas continue reading …