Hours 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.

Freddie Owens, who was convicted of murder in 1997, has long maintained his innocence Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously ...

Freddie Owens was put to death by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina on Friday. Newsweek. Freddie Owen's Final Words Before South Carolina Execution.

Two days before South Carolina's scheduled execution of Freddie Eugene Owens, his co-defendant in the robbery and murder of a Greenville convenience store clerk says Owens was innocent.

“Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden said in the sworn statement filed to the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Freddie Owens' execution appears to be moving forward despite a sworn statement from the man who testified against him that Owens wasn't even at the crime scene.

Freddie Owens is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Friday, despite a codefendant's new claim of his innocence.

Freddie Eugene Owens was executed by the State of South Carolina on September 20, despite lingering doubts about his guilt and a confession from co-defendant Steven Golden, who said Owens was not ...

Freddie Owens, the Greenville man convicted of murdering convenience store clerk Irene Graves on Halloween night in 1997, was executed Friday, according to several news organizations and witnesses.

Freddie Owens, who was convicted of murder in 1997, has long maintained his innocence South Carolina is set to execute a man on death row the evening of Friday, Sept. 20, representing the 14th ...

Freddie Owens was put to death by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina shortly before 7 p.m. on Friday. South Carolina Department of Corrections/AP ...