COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Freddie Owens' chances to live beyond 24 hours appear to be dwindling. The S.C. Supreme Court denied Owens' latest request to halt his execution, scheduled for Sept.
The haunting last word of a death row inmate has been revealed after he was killed by lethal injection despite an eleventh-hour testimony from his friend. Freddie Owens, 46, was killed with South ...
After a 13-year hiatus, the State of South Carolina resumed executions for death row inmates when Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection. Calls for the repeal of the death penalty ...
(CNN) — South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...
In an affidavit filed in August, Golden said that prosecutors in 1999 offered him a secret deal that they would not pursue the death penalty if he agreed to testify against Owens. In his affidavit ...
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the ... sentences overturned on appeal only to end up back on death row. Owens was charged with murder in Lee's death but was never ...
Live: Freddie Owens executed ... We call on the governor to grant clemency to the people remaining on Death Row before the state kills in our name again,” said Jace Woodrum, Executive Director ...