His execution began at 6:35 p.m. ET and he was pronounced dead 20 minutes later at 6:55 p.m. A South Carolina ...

South Carolina has put 43 people to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause.

Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who ...

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of ...

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

Hours before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself.

"The state of South Carolina murdered a man tonight," Democrats for Life said in a statement moments after Freddie Owens' ...

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

Prison officials had been struggling to get hold of the drugs needed for the lethal injections used to put inmates to death ...

Freddie Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. While on trial, ...