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

With the recent statements by Steven Golden, Owens' defense attorneys are once again asking the S.C. Supreme Court to pause the SC execution set for Sept 20.

One day 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 from the death chamber.

Steven Golden, the man prosecutors said robbed the convenience store with Owens, says he was not the person who killed Irene Graves on Halloween 1997

A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed on Friday was never at the crime scene, according to a key witness, who said he lied on the stand.

Freddie Owens is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday, when he will be brought into South Carolina’s death chamber and given a lethal injection. Details about how he spends his final day, however, will not be made public due to the state’s shield law and the S.C. Department of Corrections policy.

At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten violence and say "betrayers will be slayed."

Freddie Eugene Owens poured his soul into handwritten letters he sent to loved ones, expressing both his vulnerable and primal sides as he awaits his execution set for Friday