Freddie Owens is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Friday. Petition includes more than 10,000 signatures; a protest, vigils, planned

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

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections.

While also remembering victims Irene Graves and Christopher Lee, vigil attendees continued to urge Gov. Henry McMaster to grant Owens clemency

An eyewitness to the killing of gas station clerk Irene Graves, a mother of three, now says Freddie Owens was not there during the murder.