After more than a decade without an execution, South Carolina has taken a controversial step by executing its first inmate in 13 years.Freddie Owens received a fatal injection, making it the state of South Carolina's first execution of a death

Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection in South Carolina's first execution in 13 years. Sentenced to death for a 1997 murder during a robbery,

A last-minute appeal and request for clemency were denied for the Greenville man convicted of killing convenience store clerk Irene Graves in 1997

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 during an armed robbery in Greenville in 1997.

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of the state in 13 years, for killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery.

A man convicted of a 1997 murder died by lethal injection Friday in the southeastern US state of South Carolina, the state's first death row inmate executed in 13 years.Prior to Owens, the last death row inmate executed in South Carolina was 36-year-old Jeffrey Motts on May 6,

Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself from the death chamber.