Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself from the death chamber.
Owens is set to die at 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison for the killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk in 1997.
But Owens’ lawyers on Wednesday filed a sworn statement from his co-defendant Steven Golden late Wednesday to try to stop South Carolina from carrying out its first execution in more than a decade.
Prosecutors reiterated that several other witnesses testified that Owens told them he pulled the trigger. And the state Supreme Court refused to stop Owens’ execution last week after Golden, in a sworn statement, said that he had a secret deal with prosecutors that he never told the jury about.
You will NEVER get the south to give up capital punishment.
The Bible belt will never accept that God is to be the ultimate judge, just like they will never accept the equality of the races.
Could we get them to stop knowingly executing the innocent at least
No, because that’s the point.
They’re not weak like us, they aren’t troubled by such petty details like due process and justice. This is about order more than law.
Live there for a while, you learn the sheriff is the local feudal lord, and you better bow and scrape if you want to get by.
What is the benefit of this comment?
What is the benefit of your comment?
Opening the possibility that “x will never be accomplished” is probably useless demotivatiomal talk, while giving the commenter the benefit of the doubt in that there might be some purpose I haven’t thought of.
You still have not explained the benefit of your comment.
The south is continuing to execute people, mostly on racist bases, and they won’t stop.
You can’t shame someone who has no shame, and the rest of the world acting in shock of their behavior has no impact on them.
They’re like Trump-followers, the trolling and shock value is the point, they get off on it.
The last time the South decided to continue a practice the rest of the country abhorred, they fought a brutal, treasonous war resulting in the death of a million Americans. Words aren’t going to lead to change, they never have before.
People need to understand we either force the South to enter to modern era, or they never will on their own.
So you’re encouraging the recognition that it’s fruitless to get worked up over it? “Don’t feed the trolls” essentially?
No, I think we need to stop whinging and actually do something about it.
We need to resume reconstruction, put laws like the VRA and others back into place, we need to force them to live in the modern world under the constitution.
Just like we sent the FBI down, but we waited till they tortured and murdered 3 white northern kids, we should be brutally aggressive and take all of their bigotry and corruption apart.
We need to pass a law or amendment that allows us to challenge any southern conviction on the basis of evidence and/or clear bias, not just process and/or constitutionality.
We need to stop indulging the south when they do all this vile, evil shit, Hitler literally wrote about Southern Jim Crow in Mein Kampf as a model\ that Germany needed to look to, and our black GIs came back from fighting Nazis in Europe to be lynched. We owe them better.