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South Carolina will execute Freddie Owens on Friday. What you need to know.

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South Carolina will execute Freddie Owens on Friday. What you need to know.

Owens is to be executed by lethal injection. It would be the first execution in this state in 13 years. And this despite the fact that a key witness who testified against Owens now claims his innocence. The execution of a death row inmate for killing a single mother of three in South Carolina could […]

South Carolina prepares for first execution in 13 years

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South Carolina prepares for first execution in 13 years

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) — South Carolina is about to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintentional interruption because the state did not have the necessary drugs for the lethal injections. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die in a Columbia prison shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday. He was convicted in […]