The state of South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens by lethal injection on Friday. He had been convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in 1997. Hours before the execution, Owens’s co-defendant signed a statement saying that Owens,

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of the state in 13 years, for killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery.