I want the press to know this." Freddie Owens's one-word statement before death Arguably the eeriest final statement was uttered by South Carolina local Freddie Owens in September of last year. Owens ...

Irene Grainger Graves worked three jobs to provide for her kids — dance lessons, cheerleading, whatever they were interested in doing. Kmart, Bi-Lo and Speedway. Irene’s mother thought she worked ...

He was convicted of the 1997 murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a single mother of three who worked as a convenience store clerk. No physical evidence connected Allah to the crime.

Freddie Eugene Owens was executed for the 1997 murder of Irene Graves at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday.

Freddie Owens, the Greenville man convicted of murdering convenience store clerk Irene Graves on Halloween night in 1997, was executed Friday, according to several news organizations and witnesses.

According to USA Today, Owens was found guilty by a jury of the murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a 41-year-old single mother of three, at a convenience store in 1997.

Owens changed his name to Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah while in prison but court and prison records continue to refer to him as Owens. The crimes Owens was convicted of killing Irene Graves in 1999.

Owens, 46, was sentenced to death for the murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a 41-year-old store clerk. On Nov. 1, 1997, following a series of robberies, Owens shot and killed Graves while he held ...

Freddie Owens was executed by lethal injection Friday evening for the killing of a Greenville County mother of three, becoming the first first person executed in South Carolina in 13 years. Owens, 46, ...

Freddie Owens was sentenced to death for Irene Graves’ murder during an armed robbery in Greenville, SC. It was the first execution in 13 years ...