SC inmate is executed by lethal injection, 2 days after the witness changed his story
Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop it. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m., making him the first inmate executed in South Carolina in nearly 14 years.
Final meal of SC inmate put to death in state’s first execution in 13 years revealed
He had a killer final meal. A South Carolina inmate who died by lethal injection Friday chowed down on a hearty multi-course meal before the Palmetto State carried out its first execution in 13 years.
Inmate dies by lethal injection in SC’s first execution in 13 years
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections.
SC inmate dies by lethal injection in state’s first execution in 13 years
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections.
South Carolina executes first inmate in 13 years
South Carolina has carried out its first execution in 13 years, administering a lethal injection to 46-year-old Freddie Owens, who was convicted of murder in 1999. Owens was sentenced to death for killing shop worker Irene Graves during an armed robbery in Greenville in 1997.
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S. Carolina carries out first execution in 13 years
COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade ...
SC man set for execution Friday is innocent, says witness who helped convict him
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SC justices again refuse to stop Friday’s execution, despite new claims of innocence
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Co-defendant claims SC inmate Freddie Owens is innocent on eve of execution
On the eve of Freddie Owens' execution, a co-defendant from the 1997 deadly robbery has claimed that the condemned man is ...
Diocese holds vigil, protesters gather for Freddie Owens execution in SC
Sister Pam Smith of the Charleston Diocese — who also sits on the board of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death ...
Activists hold anti-death penalty vigil in downtown Columbia
South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty has released a schedule of execution vigils across the state of South ...
Anti-death penalty advocates urge SC Gov. to stop execution after new details surface
One day before the first execution in this state in 13 years, the legal team for death row inmate freddie owens has filed a ...
SC has executed 43 convicted murderers since 1985. Here’s who they are and who they killed
Jeffrey Brian Motts, 36, executed May 6, 2011, strangled his Perry Correctional Institution cellmate Charles “Chuck” Martin ...
Key witness who put Freddie Owens on death row admits he lied — but execution still happening
A key witness who helped put Freddie Owens on death row now says he lied to save his own life — coming forward just days ...