Freddie Owens becomes the first person executed in South Carolina since 2011
COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens, the Greenville man convicted of murdering convenience store clerk Irene Graves on Halloween night ...
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Co-defendant now says Freddie Owens did not kill store clerk. Court denies request to halt execution.
COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Freddie Owens' chances to live beyond 24 ... Crucially, Golden said store clerk Irene Graves was shot to death by another man, a person he has not identified for ...
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Key witness recants testimony against Freddie Owens, who is scheduled to be executed Friday
In 1999, Steven Golden told a Greenville jury that he was robbing a Speedway gas station with Freddie Owens in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1997. When the clerk, Irene Graves, would not open the ...
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South Carolina executes first inmate in 13 years
South Carolina has executed its first death row inmate in 13 years, administering a lethal injection to Freddie Owens. Owens, 46, was found guilty by a jury of killing shop worker Irene Graves ...
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We’re Witnessing the Worst Execution Spree in Three Decades
Last Wednesday, Golden recanted his testimony and signed an affidavit saying, “Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997. Freddie was not present ...
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Diocese holds vigil, protesters gather for Freddie Owens execution in SC
Freddie Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the murder of Irene Graves, a gas station clerk, in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1997. A jury found that Owens, 19 at the time of Graves ...
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Hours Before S.C. Man Is Set to Be Executed for Murder Conviction, Key Witness Says He Lied
Now Golden has said he lied to the jury in 1999. “Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden wrote in the sworn statement filed to the ...
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South Carolina death row inmate dies by state’s first lethal injection in 13 years
(CNN) — South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection ... in 1999 for killing a convenience store clerk Irene Graves during a robbery in Greenville, South Carolina ...
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South Carolina Supreme Court rejects claim inmate didn't kill clerk and refuses to stop execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has again refused to stop the execution of inmate Freddie ... Golden saying Owens wasn’t at the store when Irene Graves was killed ...
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South Carolina executes first inmate in 13 years. Freddie Owens dies by lethal injection
Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection Friday evening ... Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a 41-year-old store clerk. On Nov. 1, 1997, following a ...
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South Carolina restarts executions after 13 years
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state ... Owens was convicted of killing Irene Graves in 1999. Prosecutors said he fired a shot into the head of the single mother ...