South Carolina to execute Freddie Owens despite questions over guilt. What to know
Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who testified against Owens now proclaiming his innocence.
COVERAGE: Execution of South Carolina killer Freddie Owens
Attorneys file emergency motion before inmate’s execution FridayFreddie OwensFreddie Owens, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Friday, September 20. He is expected to be the first death row inmate executed in South Carolina in more than 13 years.
Hours before Freddie Owens' execution, friend who testified against him says he lied: "Freddie was not there"
Hours before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself.
Freddie Owens' execution is scheduled for Friday, his co-defendant now says he's innocent
Steven Golden, the man prosecutors said robbed the convenience store with Owens, says he was not the person who killed Irene Graves on Halloween 1997
Do you agree with the execution of Freddie Owens?
Over 10,000 people have signed a petition to spare the death penalty for Freddie Owens. He’s set to be executed Friday night by lethal injection.
South Carolina man says he lied when he testified against inmate scheduled for execution on Friday
The co-defendant of a man scheduled to die by lethal injection on Friday has reportedly filed a statement saying that he was pressured to name him as the suspect in order to avoid being executed by the state.
'I gotta see him go': Son of murdered South Carolina woman to attend execution
Irene Grainger Graves was 41 when she was killed on Halloween night robbery in 1997. Today her son Arte remembers her as a ...
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South Carolina prepares for first execution in 13 years
South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...
Attorneys file emergency effort to stop South Carolina execution
A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life. Chances aren't ...
South Carolina Supreme Court rejects claim inmate didn't kill clerk and refuses to stop execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend ...
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Greenville County inmate scheduled to be first person executed in South Carolina in 13 years
Irene Graves, in 1997. Death row inmate Freddie Owens received an execution notice on June 1. Via the South Carolina Department of Corrections Earlier this year, the state Supreme Court ruled ...
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South Carolina justices refuse to stop state's first execution in 13 years
The South Carolina Supreme Court has refused to ... Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for killing convenience store clerk Irene Graves in Greenville in 1997. Co-defendant Steven Golden ...
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South Carolina to execute first death row inmate in 13 years — and he can choose how he dies
20 for the 1997 murder of store clerk Irene Graves during a string of Halloween-night robberies in Greenville, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced Friday. Owens has been ...