A call from death row inmate Terry Lyn Short interrupted a meeting in the office of his attorney, James Rowan.
Short wanted a promise that, after he is put to death next month, he won't end up in a pauper's grave in the cemetery that contains the bodies of many of those hanged, electrocuted and lethally injected at the 100-year-old Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Rowan told his 47-year-old client not to be concerned about that. "It's not going to cost you anything, so don't worry about it. That's the least of your worries," he said.
What worries Rowan and other defense attorneys is the possibility that an innocent man could be executed now …
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