Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades earlier.

South Carolina executes first death row inmate in 13 years - Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, died by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in C

Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop it. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m., making him the first inmate executed in South Carolina in nearly 14 years.