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South Carolina to execute first death row inmate in 13 years — and he can choose how he dies
A South Carolina inmate on death row will have a choice of lethal injection, electrocution or a firing squad for his scheduled September execution — the state’s first in 13 years. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is set to be put to death on Sept. 20 for the 1997 …