Minutes before her father’s scheduled execution, my eight-year-old daughter pulled an old flip phone from her pink backpack and whispered,
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Chapter 1 - The Words After the Seven-Second Clip
Minutes before her father’s scheduled execution, my eight-year-old daughter pulled an old flip phone from her pink backpack and whispered, “The message says, ‘Tell Daddy I’m sorry.’” The state had used only seven seconds of that voicemail at trial. When the rest began playing, a prison officer immediately called the warden.
