Execution won’t be delayed despite new innocence claimFreddie OwensFreddie Owens, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Friday, September 20. He is expected to be the first death row inmate executed in South Carolina in more than 13 years.

South Carolina has now adopted a one-drug protocol, using the sedative pentobarbital, which mirrors the federal government’s method of execution.

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.