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

Sister Pam Smith of the Charleston Diocese — who also sits on the board of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death ...

A last-minute appeal and request for clemency were denied for the Greenville man convicted of killing convenience store clerk ...

Protesters for and against the death penalty stand outside as South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years looms.

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, died by lethal injection on Friday evening after the US Supreme Court refused to stop the ...

A death sentence for a South Carolina inmate was carried out on Friday following a 13-year pause on executions in the state, ...

Prosecutors never found the weapon used and didn’t present any forensic evidence at trial linking Owens to the crime.

South Carolina has executed Freddie Owens, the first inmate to die at the hands of the state in over a decade.

Allah, who was previously known as Freddie Owens, was executed in front of three media witnesses at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. He was convicted of armed robbery and the ...

Steven Golden, the man prosecutors said robbed the convenience store with Owens, says he was not the person who killed Irene ...

The electric chair or firing squad were his other options. The execution will take place at the Broad River Correctional ...