It was the moans of agony that first caught Ben Wolff’s attention.
As Wolff, a defense lawyer and the director of the Texas Office of Forensic and Capital Writs, followed a jailer down a Huntsville prison corridor, he knew that his new client, Syed Rabbani, was in poor physical condition. Rabbani, then 57, was serving a death sentence for a 1987 murder, and was reported to be in bad health.
But Wolff wasn’t prepared for the groans that wafted from Rabbani’s cell as the jailer jangled his keys. Читать дальше...