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 five executions scheduled to be carried out in the United States over the next week.
Freddie Owens, 46, will be the first inmate executed in South Carolina in 13 years if his last-minute clemency application to Governor Henry McMaster is rejected.
Owens was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Irene Graves, a mother of three, during an armed robbery of a convenience store in Greenville, South Carolina, on Halloween night in 1997…