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"

South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens will die as scheduled on Friday despite the introduction of an affidavit by his co-defendant proclaiming Owens' innocence, the state's high court has ruled.

Attorneys for Owens had filed an emergency motion with South Carolina's high court to reconsider stopping his death based on an affidavit filed by Owens' co-defendant, Steven Golden, stating that Owens did not shoot Graves during the robbery at the Speedway convenience store.

Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who testified against Owens now proclaiming his innocence.

A man is set to be executed in South Carolina for the first time in more than a decade. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, will die by lethal injection around 6 p.m. Friday. The only thing that can stop his execution is a call from Governor Henry McMaster.

Steven Golden, the man prosecutors said robbed the convenience store with Owens, says he was not the person who killed Irene Graves on Halloween 1997

On the eve of Freddie Owens' execution, a co-defendant from the 1997 deadly robbery has claimed that the condemned man is innocent.