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A petition to stop the execution of Freddie "Khalil" Owens was taken to the South Carolina State House in downtown Columbia Sept 19, 2024. Owens was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of Irene ...
By 2021, state lawmakers added a third option — death by firing squad — to force those on the state’s death row to make a choice so that executions could proceed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than 13 years.
South Carolina is set to execute a man on death row the evening of Friday, Sept. 20, representing the 14th execution in the United States so far in 2024.
Owens and five other inmates have exhausted their appeals and the justices have have set a schedule of possible execution dates every fifth Friday well into 2025.
Originally, Owens's death sentence was ordered to be carried out on October 3, 2008, but the execution did not proceed due to the U.S. Supreme Court granting a stay of execution for Owens while pending an appeal. [25] [11] Later, Owens was rescheduled to be executed on January 9, 2009, but the execution date was delayed for legal reasons. [14]
Owens' execution is the first of five scheduled in the U.S. in only a six-day period. On Tuesday, Texas is set to execute Travis James Mullis in the 2008 murder of his baby boy, ...
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 13, 2027 Keith LaMar: 57 23 34 Male Black Ohio: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 17, 2027 Scott A. Group: 62 32 30 White Profile: 3 March 18, 2027 Davel Chinn: 69 31 38 Black Profile: 4 April 14, 2027 Gregory Lott: 65 25 40