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Inmate awaiting execution says South Carolina didn't share enough about lethal injection drug

The Canadian Press | Canada's Trusted News Leader
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Freddie Owens ’ attorneys want prison administrators to provide actual report from state scientists who tested the sedative pentobarbital.

The state provided just a summary that said the drug is stable, pure and potent enough to kill.

Owens is scheduled to be put to death Sept. 20 for shooting a Greenville convenience store clerk in the head during a 1997 robbery.