'I gotta see him go': Son of murdered South Carolina woman to attend execution Irene Grainger Graves was 41 when she was killed on Halloween night robbery in 1997.

“Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden told the South Carolina Supreme Court. “Freddie was not present when I robbed the Speedway ...

Irene Grainger Graves was 41 when she was killed on Halloween night robbery in 1997. Today her son Arte remembers her as a loving and fun mother. Story by Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY ...

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. “Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden told the South ...

On Friday afternoon, South Carolina executed its first inmate in over a decade, Freddie Owens, for the murder of Greenville gas station clerk Irene Graves.According to the South Carolina ...

COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens, the Greenville man convicted of murdering convenience store clerk Irene Graves on Halloween night in 1997, was executed Friday. Owens, 46, died by lethal injection at ...

Golden, a co-defendant in the murder Owens was convicted of, wrote that Owens was not present when Irene Graves, a clerk at a Greenville, S.C., convenience store, was fatally shot on Nov. 1, 1997.

Irene Graves was a young South Carolina mother of 3 when she was murdered. Now her killer Freddie Owens is to be executed in SC. ... South Carolina, was a big one — nine children.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the state has done since the death penalty ...

Irene Graves, 41, was a clerk at one of the convenience stores he targeted. ... No South Carolina governor in modern history has granted clemency to reduce a death sentence to life in prison.

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is set to be put to death on Sept. 20 for the 1997 murder of store clerk Irene Graves during a string of Halloween-night robberies in Greenville, the South Carolina ...

COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens, the Greenville man convicted of murdering convenience store clerk Irene Graves on Halloween night in 1997, was executed Friday. Owens, 46, died by lethal injection at ...