(21 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 20 September 2024
1. Wide of prison official and execution witnesses stepping to podium
2. Tight of seat on podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, South Carolina Department of Corrections:
“The capital punishment sentence of Freddie Eugene Owens was carried out tonight, pursuant to the order of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in accordance with state law. The execution began at 6:35 p.m. and inmate Owens was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:55 p.m.”
4. Wide of prison entrance sign
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, South Carolina Department of Corrections:
“Mr. Owens was sentenced to death for the killing of 41-year-old Irene Graves. On Nov. 1, 1997. She worked at a Greenville convenience store.”
6. Various of protesters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
“The curtain opened at 6:35, and the execution started about a minute later.”
8. Drone shot of prison complex
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Justin Dougherty, Fox Carolina News anchor:
“And as soon as the curtain was drawn, he immediately turned his eyes to the witness room. And looked around the witness room and pretty much made contact with each one of us, made eye contact with each one of us. And then his eyes drew back to his attorney, and he gave her a big smile.”
10. Various of woman holding fence and crying
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Dougherty, Fox Carolina News anchor:
“He was mouthing several words, but you could hear him say, `Bye.’ You could clearly hear him say, `Bye,’ to his attorney. They were making eye contact. He said, `Bye.’ She responded and said, `Bye.’”
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
“Once the execution was announced as starting, Owens was conscious for a minute, maybe just a tad bit longer than that, where his eyes were open and he was still looking at his lawyer. There was still regular breathing. About a minute, a minute and a half later, his eyes closed. It was about four or five minutes, right after his eyes closed, there were some heavy breaths. Some very deep almost snoring like breaths.”
13. Tight of sign saying “Thou Shall Not Kill!”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
“Then about four or five minutes after that, there was a more, almost like facial twitches, like little tiny movements of the head. Some very shallow breathing.”
15. Mid of woman sitting on grass with prayer beads, crossing self
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
“The two family members of Irene Graves, they looked intently. You know, they didn’t, their gaze didn’t look away from him until well into the process, when you could tell things had, you could tell his breathing had stopped. But they didn’t react in any other way. There wasn’t, like, any animosity or any anger or any anything. They just kind of gave him a fairly intense stare, but not like a stare-down kind of stare.”
17. Various of tent with South Carolina crescent moon
STORYLINE:
South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections.
Owens was convicted of the 1997 killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk during a robbery. While on trial, Owens killed a person incarcerated at a county jail. His confession to that attack was read to two different juries and a judge who all sentenced him to death.
A doctor came in and declared him dead a little over 10 minutes later at 6:55 p.m.
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