Sept. 21 (UPI) — Officials in South Carolina have executed Freddie Owens, convicted in the 1997 murder of a convenience store clerk, marking the state’s first execution in more than a decade.
Owens was executed by lethal injection Friday evening at the Broad Broad River Correctional Institute in Columbia.
The 46-year-old was convicted of killing convenience store clerk Irene Graves during a robbery in 1997 in Greenville, S.C…