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| S.C. Murderer To Face New Death-Penalty Hearing |
| By WYFF |
| Published: 03/05/2003 |
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A convicted murderer will return to the Upstate next week for a new hearing on whether he will live or die for his crime. Freddie Eugene Owens was convicted in 1999 of killing convenience-store clerk Irene Graves in 1997. The day before a jury was to decide on his sentence for that crime, investigators said that Owens killed a cellmate at the Greenville County Detention Center, Brian Lee. Investigators said that Owens confessed to killing Lee by stabbing him with a ball-point pen. Lee was in the jail on a 30-day sentence for driving with a suspended license. The next day, prosecutors presented that confession to the jury deciding on Owens' sentence. Owens was sentenced to death. Lawyers who represented Owens appealed that sentence to the South Carolina Supreme Court, saying that Owens' defense team did not have enough time to investigate the second killing. The justices agreed and ordered the penalty phase of the trial to be repeated. Next week, a new jury will hear the evidence in the case and decide whether Owens should live or die. Owens may be kept at Perry Correction Facility during his stay in the Upstate. But if he is housed at the Greenville County jail during his time away from the hearing, Owens will be segregated from the rest of the inmate population, jail representatives said. Whenever he is moved from his cell, he will be fully restrained, guarded by multiple officers and videotaped, jail representatives said. |
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