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 fingerprints were on the weapon. There was blood on his clothes. A neighbor had testified to hearing a violent argument that night.

Still, there were those who quietly doubted.