South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens enjoyed a feast of classic American food as his final meal before he was executed on Friday for a 1997 murder. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution near Columbia,

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

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.

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

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections.

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.

A key witness who helped put Freddie Owens on death row now says he lied to save his own life — coming forward just days before Owens’ execution, which is still set for Friday. Steven Golden — Owens’ one-time friend and co-defendant — filed a sworn statement Wednesday saying he lied during his testimony and that Owens wasn’t with him at a South Carolina convenience store in 1997 when Irene Graves was killed in a botched robbery.