South Carolina, death row
These five death row inmates are next in line for execution in South Carolina
The state Supreme Court set the order in which the men would be executed with the earliest for a Spartanburg man in October and into March for others
South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens executed by lethal injection
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause.
Opinion
Bailey: South Carolina, sadly, becomes a national leader in death penalty
Columnist Steve Bailey writes that if Gov. Henry McMaster believes Freddie Owens' execution is “justice,” then he should have administered the lethal injection.
Doubts about guilt swirl around South Carolina death row inmate day before execution
At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten violence and say "betrayers will be slayed"
Last meal of death row inmate revealed after South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years
Last meal of death row inmate revealed after South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years - Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, died by lethal injection at the Broad Rive
South Carolina death row inmate asks governor for clemency
In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However, no governor has done that in the state’s 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.
Death row inmate's innocence plea rejected as South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to stop execution
Freddie Owens' execution is set for Friday at 6pm at a Columbia prison for the killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk in 1997 after the SC Supreme Court refused to stop it
South Carolina man on death row pushes for clemency in final hours
A South Carolina man, Freddy Owens, 46, is asking the Supreme Court to halt his execution after a witness admitted to falsely accusing him. Owens was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of convenience store clerk Irene Graves in Greenville.
South Carolina executes man days after witness admits to lying on stand
Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades earlier.
What is next for S.C. death row after Freddie Owens’ execution?
After South Carolina executed its first inmate in more than a decade, many are wondering what is next for the other men on death row.
South Carolina death row inmate dies by state’s first lethal injection in 13 years
South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of ...
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South Carolina to execute Freddie Owens despite questions over guilt. What to know
A death row inmate convicted of killing a single mother of three children in South Carolina is set to become the ...
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South Carolina Supreme Court ruling lists order six death row inmates will be executed
Three Upstate men on South Carolina's death row now know the order in which the state will put them to death. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday on a petition filed by the men ...
Death Row killer who brutally stomped baby son to death utters surprising final words as he's executed
Travis Mullis was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for the murder of his three-month-old son, who he sexually ...
There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades
Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...
5 executions scheduled in one week in US, including Alabama, for first time in more than 20 years
"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death ...