South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens in the shooting death of a convenience store clerk on Friday as his mother begged state officials to reconsider, saying they were committing a "grave ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is set to be put to death on Sept. 20 for the 1997 murder of store clerk Irene Graves during a string of Halloween-night robberies in Greenville, the South Carolina ...

Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades earlier. September 24, 2024. 7 min.

Sept. 21 (UPI) --Officials in South Carolina have executed Freddie Owens, convicted in the 1997 murder of a convenience store clerk, marking the state's first execution in more than a decade.

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 ...

“Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden told the South Carolina Supreme Court. “Freddie was not present when I robbed the Speedway ...

South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Executive Director Rev. Hillary Taylor speaks at a news conference before delivering petitions to stop the execution of Freddie Owens at the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first time in 13 years, the state of South Carolina put a man to death. Freddie Owens, 46, took his last breath after being lethally injected at Broad River Correctional ...

Owens’ death is now set for Sept. 20, as South Carolina uses a new lethal injection procedure after a 13-year pause in executions. South Carolina’s executions have been postponed since 2011 ...

On Friday, South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens by lethal injections as questions over his guilt arose over the last couple of days.