PART 1 — The Last Visit
Only hours before he was scheduled to die, death row inmate Gavin Cole made one final request.
He did not ask for a special meal.
He did not ask for a minister.
He asked to see the daughter he had not held in nearly three years.
No one inside the Huntsville Unit expected that one quiet conversation would expose cracks in a five-year-old conviction, uncover a hidden chain of corruption, and force state officials to confront a terrifying possibility:
