The mother of Freddie Owens urged Gov. Henry McMaster to spare her son’s life in a statement released hours ahead of his ...

South Carolina inmate Freddie Eugene Owens is set to undergo the state’s first execution in 13 years, about a year after the ...

At the eleventh hour, the key eyewitness in the case that sent Freddie Owens to death row recanted his testimony, saying that ...

Thanks to a rare clemency approval, a man sentenced to almost 300 years for a string of nonviolent thefts walked free ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

The Greenville News will be providing live coverage from Columbia today leading up to the execution of Freddie Owens.

While also remembering victims Irene Graves and Christopher Lee, vigil attendees continued to urge Gov. Henry McMaster to grant Owens clemency ...

A man convicted of the murder of a store clerk is to be put to death by lethal injection in South Carolina on Friday, one of ...

A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his due ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

Clemency does not mean that the seriousness of the crime is overlooked or that the pain of victim's family is forgotten.