A death row inmate hours from execution requested a final visit from the daughter she had not seen in nearly three years, rather than a meal or a chaplain. 😨

The inmate had maintained for five years that she had not committed the offence for which she was convicted. The evidence at trial included fingerprints on the weapon, blood matching the victim on her clothing, and a neighbour’s account of seeing her leave the scene.

The warden, with three decades in the prison system, authorized the visit, stating that the case had never sat comfortably with him. A state vehicle arrived three hours later carrying a social worker and an eight-year-old girl, who passed through the corridors in silence.

The inmate was waiting in the visitation room with her wrists secured to the table.
The child crossed the room, embraced her, and after approximately a minute spoke into her ear at a volume no one else could hear. Officers present reported confusion. The inmate’s colour changed and she began shaking, before smiling for the first time in five years. What the child said is deliberately left unrevealed.