South Carolina Restarts Executions

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South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens executed by lethal injection

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Owens , 46 , was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m. Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery.

While on trial, Owens killed an inmate at a county jail.

His confession to that attack was read to two different juries and a judge who all sentenced him to death.

Owens allowed his lawyer to choose how he died.

Owens ' attorneys providedtwo days before the execution from Steven Golden saying Owens was not in the store, contradicting his trial testimony. Prosecutors said other friends of Owens and his former girlfriend testified that he bragged about killing the clerk. Owens ' lawyers also said he was just 19 when the killing happened and that he had suffered brain damage from physical and sexual violence while in a juvenile prison..

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