Just moments before he was set to be executed, his eight-year-old daughter leaned in and whispered something that froze the guards in place… and within 24 hours, the entire state was brought to a standstill.

Hours before his scheduled execution by lethal injection, a man on death row made one final request: to hold his daughter. Daniel Foster had been waiting in a narrow cell at the Huntsville Unit in Texas for five years, insisting he had not killed his wife, Laura. The case against him had seemed overwhelming. His…