South Carolina justices refuse to stop execution

South Carolina justices refuse to stop state's first execution in 13 years

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to die by lethal injection next week in the state's first execution in 13 years. The justices unanimously tossed out two requests from defense lawyers who said a court needed to hear new information about what they called a secret deal that kept a co-defendant off death row or from serving life in prison and about a juror who correctly surmised Owens was wearing a stun belt at his 1999 trial.

The Washington Post · 14d

South Carolina Supreme Court rejects claim inmate didn't kill clerk and refuses to stop execution

The South Carolina Supreme Court has again refused to stop the execution of inmate Freddie Owens, who is set to die Friday by lethal injection

UPI · 13d

South Carolina executes Freddie Owens; first state inmate to die in 13 years

Sept. 21 (UPI) --Officials in South Carolina have executed Freddie Owens, convicted in the 1997 murder of a convenience store clerk, marking the state's first execution in more than a decade.

CBS News20d

South Carolina Supreme Court refuses to stop upcoming execution of Freddie Owens, the state's first in 13 years

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to die by lethal injection next week in the state's first execution in 13 years. The ...

AZ Central14d

Freddie Owens executed; activists embraced, prayed at Department of Corrections

It doesn't stop ... execution of her son. A Mother's Plea for Mercy and Justice Fighting Injustice Together released the statement. Dora Mason wrote: "To the People of South Carolina, the ...

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