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.
they fucking LIED UNDER OATH. The entire case needs to be reevaluated.
This is the correct answer. It sounds like they’re admitting to perjury. So the case needs to be re-evaluated or set for a mistrial if it was a critical witness testimony that’s been proven to be lying under oath.
That’s a very big assumption you’re making. They could be lying now.
Sounds like we should wait to kill a dude till we figure that out.
Or are they lying now? You can’t know. Do you reevaluate every case when somebody says something other than their sworn testimony?
Fucking yes! They’re going to kill him, you will never get another chance to make sure.
If the case results in ending someone’s fucking life, yeah, absolutely revaluate that shit
Yes??? What kinda bullshit take is that?
The whole issue with capital punishment is that you can’t ever be sure, and you have to do your best to make sure you’re punishing the correct person.
You disgust me.