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Execution Date Set For Store-Clerk's Killer
POSTED: 2:20 pm EDT September 5,
2008
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The state Supreme Court has set an execution date for the man convicted of killing a Greenville convenience store clerk in 1997.The South Carolina Corrections Department said in a news release Friday that Freddie Owens will be put death on Oct. 3.Owens has been sentenced to death three separate times for killing Irene Grainger Graves during a convenience store holdup in 1997. His first two sentences were overturned.
Owens also is accused of killing a man in jail after his conviction for Graves' death.At his sentencing hearing a few days after the trial, Owens told the jury he killed 28-year-old Christopher Lee by strangling him.Owens has not been prosecuted in that case.
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Previous Stories:
- November 13, 2006: Owens Sentenced To Death For 3rd Time
- November 10, 2006: Owens Faces Death As 3rd Sentencing Hearing Begins
- November 6, 2006: Freddie Eugene Owens: Unrepentant, Defiant And Violent
- November 6, 2006: Owens Sentenced To Death, Again
- February 5, 2003: Murderer To Face New Death-Penalty Hearing
