SC inmate dies in state's first execution in 13 years

[@minuteman2547]

And nothing of value was lost, except for 28 years of taxpayer money to keep a psychopath locked up.

[@j-sin3344]

@minuteman2547 is sad but its true. People need to have accountability. If the evidence is cut and dry, they need to be held accountable the day after they are sentenced, NOT wait decades for taxpayers, which cost 70k approx a year for an inmate, to pay while the victims get no justice. IF the time finally comes, everyone is up in arms because they forgot what the crime was and NO justice gets done because they are let go or get a stay. Excellent point MM!!

[@Beeper420]

You’re the psychopath

[@jonesy4588]

only ones crying are utube workers

[@coreturkoane5570]

exactly 100%

[@the1basser]

@@jonesy4588 😂🤣

[@liseklerekoper2441]

The fact that it’s taken 27 years from the time he was sentenced until the execution tells you everything you need to know about the problems with our justice system.

[@frickpoo6644]

Welfare raised them,the judicial system earns the money back for the democrats section 8 volunteer financial slavery system

[@jonesy4588]

what justice system ?

[@liseklerekoper2441]

@@frickpoo6644 - Such a ridiculous comment.🤦🏻‍♀️ Did you actually engage your brain before you wrote it?

[@Vale0x3]

Yeah the video says it. Says they couldn't get the drugs. Why are you acting like the video dodnt address it.

[@liseklerekoper2441]

@@Vale0x3 - I never said the video didn’t address it. Such a bizarre comment from you. It doesn’t take 27 years to figure out how to execute someone who is on Death Row. We see this same time frame for most people on Death Row, so it’s a far larger problem than just this case. That was the point I was making, & it wasn’t that complicated to grasp, except for you.

[@JohnDowd-r8t]

I don’t think the death penalty is a deterrent but when I hear what the criminals have done to others, I don’t object

[@kman55w]

Then you're no different.

[@greenbeagle13]

Well, it deters this guy from killing anyone again. 😒😒

[@WallaceMichael91]

​@@kman55w if you can't tell the difference between an unprovoked violent crime and a penalty for such you have room temp I Q

[@RedShoez]

I hate the death penalty 😢

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

​@@WallaceMichael91🤔 Deep thoughts brother. Can u clarify? I want to make sure I'm grokking ur opinion correctly.

[@Isogotit]

System is broken should not have taken this long. What a waste of taxpayers money.

[@sorimasn]

There’s a scary amount of people defending a convicted murderer who confessed to killing an inmate, while awaiting sentencing for the original murder.

[@upfulsoul826]

How do you know it wasn't self-defense? Inmates fight all the time. There are inmates that have life sentences for way worst crimes. They aren't put to death.

[@obiwankenobi661]

women and feminine men.

[@EmitOcean20]

​@upfulsoul826 go read if you don't know. Duh. You need Hillary Clinton to read to you.

[@KtotheG]

They're protesting the penalty.

[@tonicrvnts]

Do mass killers get automatic death sentence? 🤨 🤷

[@the1basser]

I bet he wasn't grinning last night .

[@falcon4548]

😵‍💫

[@louisegross3886]

Lol grinning like he was tough his butt was probably crying like a baby at his pitiful final moments

[@monumentalsin3552]

He died during the execution? Wow who would have guessed. The news makes such stupid titles. "safe words" and "quotation"

[@RichardKopf-x3u]

They sure got you fired up this early in the morning. I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope your feelings will recover! My safe word is "Giraffe."

[@DG-nk7jo]

Some people don’t die during state executions, that’s why state executions have been postponed for so long. States have been wanting to find a perfect humane method that doesn’t cause pain but, that doesn’t seem possible.

[@MeCanik79]

I thought the same thing...smh

[@kashmoney7421]

There was a controversy about the 3 cocktail drug and overseas suppliers not supplying it as being anti death penalty. Some states started trying to make their own potions and survived their executions or had to be killed another way during the execution to finish it.

[@DG-nk7jo]

@@MeCanik79 Did you ever think that maybe some people don’t die during execution?

[@__sleepywrld__]

How is he gonna get an execution for something he did 20+ years ago but rapists, can only get 3 years in prison

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Stupid courts. He should have been gone a long rime ago. What's that old saying? Justice delayed is Justice denied? True enough! What exactly was he fould guilty of doing? He ceretainly wasn't sentenced to death just for robbing a convience store!~

[@MeCanik79]

"Well, bye." - Curly Bill, Tombstone 1993

[@nicholaskozanas329]

Lmfao..... That was one Savage line in that movie

[@chas.5009]

Wyatt: we don't want any more trouble. Johnny Ringo: well ya GOT trouble!

[@fattoria_di_bastoni]

Lethal injection is passive. Was his murder of another human passive? Surely not. He got off easy. It’s a shame what some humans are capable of.

[@Maggdusa]

He had a choice of various execution types, and he let his lawyers choose which way he would die. They chose lethal injection.

[@Martin199320]

My cousin survived a lethal injection dose because they either didn't prescribe him enough or something like that I'm not sure, but he said the pain was horrible. He said he was paralyzed and felt like the inside of his body was on fire. He ended up surviving this ordeal and says he would rather die being burnt alive vs lethal injection. Says it's the worst thing and pain he ever experienced in life.

[@mimimiraj7351]

Says who. Lethal injections are awful. Read the literature. Horrible

[@dnice_2170]

@@Martin199320sooo they let him free? They didn’t keep trying? He lived to talk about it?

[@jamesmartin4902]

​@@Martin199320As it should be.🤫

[@pallmall8452]

took way too long

[@bluesslider76]

Don’t break the law. Got it.

[@HAD97]

@herewegoagain4563 Poor thing! Poor training.

[@jefrefrank8496]

Should not have been that long since they gave him the penalty.

[@Desertfox14]

It shouldn't but they get appeals that have them breathing for another decade or so.

[@efk3733]

it absolutely is a deterrent,

[@esils]

Say the victim name…. Reporter had one job 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@KtotheG]

He did mention his name.

[@Voo504Doo]

he said his name multiple times ..are you slow?

[@unguardablebucketgetter3339]

@@Voo504Dooyou dont know what a victim is do you? Got the nerve to call someone slow

[@Voo504Doo]

@@unguardablebucketgetter3339 lol touche. i feel kinda dumb , you got that one lol. By definition the guy killed is still a victim. A victim of his own actions and the consequences thereafter. Not all victims have to be the ones hurt by the perpetrator. People are victims of all kind of things

[@shaitanlavey]

Does anyone else feel like these folks are getting off too light? Shouldn't the punishment be far more brutal and terrifying than the crime? Stop coddling these murderers by "putting them to sleep".

[@SOLO-bi7ud]

The Supreme Court has determined alternative forms of unaliving a person in this scenario as inhumane.

[@azbycxz]

I feel the same for white folks.

[@davidburch3850]

find the tallest oak tree, and get a noose on their neck.

[@shaitanlavey]

@@azbycxz Thanks for making this about race when it has zero to do with the conversation.

[@tsaffran]

@@azbycxz that's ok if you're white you're right. think black is beautiful try watching your tv while it's off doesn't work. but thanks for the comment

[@genevaward6525]

What makes our crooked murderous politicians exempt

[@Tintguy1985]

You are absolutely correct, I have been voicing the same opinion as you since about 1998

[@TheJanamanfo]

So true

[@yourworstfear]

money

[@Bulgeofpersuasion]

Hillary Clinton? A corrupt deep state protects her.

[@shelleypegram1450]

This is the comment I was looking for. I'd give you a million likes if I could!

[@williamhenry9705]

Did he sport his trademark smug smirk as he gasped for his last breath?

[@RockinD-o6b]

Since 1997? Why so long guilty as charged it shouldn’t years it should take weeks.

[@yourworstfear]

no minutes.

[@davidbarnett9312]

Sparky used to work like clockwork back in the day, but something that we all forget is the state and federal constitutions and the right to appeal. Once the appellate state courts are exhausted, then it's on to the federal courts of appeal all the way up, should they decide to hear it, the USSC. What with court dockets overburdened with appeals for all kinds of cases, not just death penalty, it takes a long time for the process to be carried out.

[@jasonweaver4950]

The reason is the courts in the past did not do their due diligence prior to executions and people who were not guilty executed people. Research DNA evidence failures in death sentences

[@CTID]

My entire life!!

[@HCallahan]

Right, when found guilty with proof, 30 days to live.....

[@AmazingNature365]

RIP FREDDIE

[@Beeper420]

Abolish the death penalty

[@Lobsterman5481]

Why?

[@carch7243]

Only someone who has never had to bury a murdered family member would say that.

[@Backintoons8515]

We should not even talk about him in the news !

[@michaelpcoffee]

The death penalty should have an expiration date. Justice is swift and sure.

[@jonesy4588]

yeah about 20 minutes

[@j-sin3344]

We have an Opioid epidemic that is killing people by the thousands every week across the US. WTF how hard is it to find a drug to put someone to sleep forever? Painless and TBH if I had to go, thats the way for sure.

[@user-jd6gn1cq7e]

Exactly! Had to put down my dog last year. Held her throughout the procedure...catheter, a drug to make her relaxed, which in her case wasn't needed and then her angel wing drug. She was gone in seconds. So, why can't we rid the tax payers of these poor excuses for humans. Note: the only crime my dog was guilty of was getting too old.

[@randysummerhays4168]

1985 to 1988 I lived in Mariposa California a Gold Rush Town by Yosemite they had a small Museum in the museum they had 3 x 5 cards that said you are invited to a public hanging Saturday at noon they were from the cowboy days public execution public deterrent

[@LeonNobles]

Damn shame.

[@monicafranco1784]

Funny how people care more about the criminals than the victims 😢

[@PamEdwards-k5g]

Hes smiling all the way to his death 😢😢😢😢. Omg.

[@longsleevethong1457]

Took way too long

[@sameppink9401]

bye 👋

[@Keepupthecardio]

"Consequences" - John Wick

[@tonicrvnts]

I don't get it 🤨 It makes more sense to me that instead of a death sentence people should be sent to forced labor and build roads, or things like that 🤷

[@jerrybeaver4677]

Waited to long

[@Ashphinchtersayswhat]

Shocker a guy undergoing a death sentence dies. Wooo😮

[@cbroz7492]

..why did it take so long???

[@hanzwind]

Bye Freddy! Girl, byeeee!

[@kwootamuckbear9294]

Is this an act of God or satan🤔 Are the rest of us perfect from sin😮

[@carch7243]

It is an act of people

[@brianedwards5792]

This is a ploy for his family to cry victim

[@pappyoh1]

Right On 👍

[@jbenevy]

We never die. We just leave our bodies.

[@christopherhodges1189]

27 years how stupid death sentences should be carried out immediately

[@michele_torres_sososilver]

Shame shame shame shame! Pro-life? sure, NC.

[@Vikingsmoke]

The chair took that evil smirk right off his face😂

[@4stringz.]

they waited too long.

[@smokymcpot5917]

Kudos south carolina.

[@Scray-k4c]

Bye-bye

[@upfulsoul826]

He got sentenced to death for killing an inmate. But, he shouldn't have been in jail in the first place because his friend set him up by lying that the he was present for a robbery where a convenience store owner got killed.

[@randysummerhays4168]

Sure

[@Gorilla_nuts]

Lol. He was a watch out. He was part of it. He was convicted.

[@fattoria_di_bastoni]

I know they’re all innocent. Sarcasm.

[@upfulsoul826]

​@@randysummerhays4168 Yep: Owens was put to death just days after a key witness confessed that he lied on the stand about Owens being with him at the South Carolina convenience store in 1997 when clerk Irene Graves was gunned down in a botched robbery. Steven Golden, Owens’ one-time pal, claimed he had a secret deal with prosecutors and lied about his then-pal’s guilt to help save himself from the death chamber. “I’m coming forward now because I know Freddie’s execution date is September 20 and I don’t want Freddie to be executed for something he didn’t do,” he wrote in a court filing “This has weighed heavily on my mind and I want to have a clear conscience.”

[@lankishajohnson8097]

@@randysummerhays4168hush

[@MegaBlackadam]

Did he say they legalized firing squads😮

[@vincesmith2499]

What's wrong with that?

[@deannaanzevino]

Yeah that stood out to me too.😮

[@JoeWrightIV]

Somehow I knew he would be black!

[@ChefSheefluciano]

We all did. Is South Carolina thing I guess

[@twilit]

i knew it would be a male!

[@SnapWrench3s]

FACTS

[@obiwankenobi661]

every time.

[@vincesmith2499]

​​@herewegoagain4563He was executed because he committed murder, not because he was black. White people have been executed.

[@ViceCoin]

Did Linda Graham make a conjugal visit?🎉

[@yeceniaperez1165]

Thou shall not kill

[@ronalddunne3413]

"Thou shalt not MURDER" is the more correct translation of that Commandment. Anyway, the death penalty in the Mosaic law was the penalty for a plethora of crimes, not just wanton murder. Just sayin...

[@jamesmartin4902]

Actually the literal translation is thou shall not murder, their is a huge difference. ❄

[@kuddusjajira8392]

1997 to 2024

[@davidbarnett9312]

Look at history and note how people used to be offed. Just finished reading about one of the Viking kings some 1200 years ago that decided to punish his enemy by stuffing an adder down said enemy's throat. It took some doing, but the adder was stuffed down the enemy's throat and of course the inevitable. Then there was being burned alive at the stake, being hanged, drawn, and quartered, the iron maiden [no, not the heavy metal guys], drowning, beheaded, and so on and so forth.

[@carch7243]

There are some horrible, and brutal forms of execution in the past.

[@frickpoo6644]

Did you show the video of him right beforehand when he wasn't so smug

[@JohnDoe-fq7tc]

And the wages of sin are death. His debt is paid here however true judgement is being laid down now. If you were in his seat now, Are you ready?

[@hardkoregamer1981]

"As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization." - Jacque Fresco

[@Mrgolden1174]

27 years after the crime

[@TheJanamanfo]

I hope he ask Jesus to forgive him.before he died

[@ericar.7924]

So he was a kid when he committed his crime? I want to know what made his crime worse than others that deserves the death penalty a lot sooner than his.

[@vincesmith2499]

​@herewegoagain4563Murderers do, NOT unborn humans, liberal.

[@MsFreshadenu]

​@herewegoagain4563are you saying child rapists shouldn't be executed?

[@mmsmart1014]

Charles Manson and others who did heinous crimes live out their time on death row. Never executed them.

[@SnapWrench3s]

So did he kill someone or rape someone 🤔

[@upfulsoul826]

@@SnapWrench3s He killed one inmate.

[@obiwankenobi661]

0:49 - i like the transition to the woman, smiling.

[@kennethmoffett1590]

Was it a black man the last time

[@Aquarius-ym1mh]

13 years is short time

[@carmenrivers6808]

He probably smiling because he probably didn't do it. Because i believe he pleaded innocent. The system more that likely Emmet Till him. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@carch7243]

News flash, the rules of evidence have changed in the past 70 years.

[@carmenrivers6808]

@carch7243 You should be smart enough to know that just cause the rules changed don't mean a thing if you're black. Unless you're not black, then you wouldn't know

[@mikecalif5553]

Super late Justice Served.

[@lindakep3968]

Is killing another person.

[@jonesy4588]

probably a utube worker

[@mozeltoff]

.308

[@OrangeMonkey2112]

Tough luck

[@margotaylor5781]

Why do i feel like there is some form of an attack on ... men, out here

[@clintparsons3989]

Incelsayswhat

[@BlackSun-j2m]

It is

[@paulqruel9290]

Hi

[@karlschmidt7258]

MOAR!

[@dixunsu2555]

🎉🎉🎉

[@1stFlicks]

Terrible!!!! a civilian murders someone it horrific, the government turns around and does the same exact act and it perceived as JUSTICE!!! Terrible

[@squarebale1]

Removing a threat to the general public at large saves lives. An eye for an eye…

[@nanyobizniz2016]

🤣😂🤬

[@frustratedlogician]

@@squarebale1 an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind

[@MsFreshadenu]

There is actually a difference between killing an innocent person and killing a murderer. Pretending they are the same is dumb.

[@MeCanik79]

Stop whining, Snowflake. He's now where he should have been 27 years ago.

[@dougrodgers8106]

Good and bring back the draft

[@TimothyJernigan-nh8lo]

U white huh

[@JiggsTheMonk02]

@@TimothyJernigan-nh8lowhite and right

[@Jaybush-hy4mh]

​@@JiggsTheMonk02love being a white boy

[@lamblyn]

The letter U is not a person. ​@@TimothyJernigan-nh8lo

[@JiggsTheMonk02]

@@Jaybush-hy4mh I love being a white MAN

[@saigon9143]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@YellowJeep]

"Freddie's dead, that's what I said."

[@finaloption...]

👋

[@DianeDugger-bz8rd]

Hahaha 😂

[@your2ndchance181]

Well no Justice for slavery or the black Wall Street or Cenica Gardens

[@carch7243]

Who, in your opinion, should be arrested for those incidents?

[@VickitheGreat]

What makes this ok, ?

[@pallmall8452]

go ask the family of the man he killed, im sure you'll get the answer you want.

[@Andible]

He took someone elses life.

[@johndaugherty4127]

You shall not sugfer s murderer to live. Unles you want him to come and live with you.

[@ronswanson1410]

You take a life you get your life took. That's the rule .

[@lamblyn]

An eye for an eye.

[@italishgirl5601]

Did I hear correctly ? He was executed for robbing a convenience store?

[@hr-hq8ji]

He killed someone while robbing a convenience store

[@Durka-Durka]

They said murder withing the first 5 seconds of the video

[@sorimasn]

No, you didn’t. He was convicted of murder which was TIED to a convenience store robbery.

[@jessecarpenter8760]

Black failure is the most numerous thing in the universe.

[@johnglover5071]

Are you serious? I bet support Harris. He WASN'T executed for robbery. He was executed for murdering the store clerk.

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

🥺 And we're still one of very few countries in the world in which the govt unalives citizens. Of course he must be punished. Isnt there a better way? 🤔

[@SouthernGothicYT]

well, if you keep giving a slap on the wrist and saying "promise to be good?" it's not a good deterrent. So you got any ideas? Because mine is "you get what you ask for"

[@Tintguy1985]

@@cthulholmhastur5317 . 3 things that are key for responsible people in a society. #1 two parents in a household #2. Ethical, and responsible behavior raising the child. Obviously a structural environment , clean safe and comfortable. Education and community #3 enjoying the freedoms bestoded on all Americans in the Constitution.

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

@@Tintguy1985 🤓 I couldn't agree more. Sadly, not all Americans have these things in their formative years. 😢

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

@@SouthernGothicYT 😳 I wish I did (have a better idea). But I'm pretty sure that multiple studies have shown that the unalive penalty is a weak or non-existent deterrent. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@vincesmith2499]

No.

[@Geoffthegayrobotroomate]

Oh no! Anyways... nothing lost.

[@upfulsoul826]

A life is lost whist people who committed worst crimes live.

[@vincesmith2499]

​@@upfulsoul826What's worse than murder?

[@AmandaHugginkiss69]

13 years...c'mon let's get that quota up! WAY UP!

[@Patriot_Vet]

Brought to you by the “pro Life” movement.👿

[@carch7243]

murder is murder

[@dakotaconners107]

For those complaining about it has taken to long, I agree, however; the fact is very few Black's are even given the death penalty considering the percentage of their ethnic group they commit the most murders. So this is a rare experience.

[@McNohammer-xh3vp]

P diddy already gone wow that was fast justice......

[@disheemthomas4553]

Would've been nice if they included this little part: "days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward to say he lied at trial and the state was putting to death an innocent man." - per The Guardian

[@sorimasn]

Murdered a fellow inmate while awaiting sentencing - confession per owens himself. Another tidbit to add.

[@moki7685]

Innocent people are not smiling on their way to being executed

[@disheemthomas4553]

@@sorimasn I'm not privy 2 any other information other than what was introduced 2 me by way of what I mentioned. You're free 2 add more in depth details, but just based on what you provided alone, I certainly am not unintelligent nor short sighed enough 2 form any conclusion whatsoever about 1 inmate unaliving another, whose alleged history you would also no doubt use w/o hesitation if he had met the same fate @ the hands of the police or a member of a neighborhood watch. I won't judge ANY wrongfully convicted persons 4 any mentality they develop or whatever measures they take while enslaved in an institution where you have 2 practice survival. This man had been subject 2 those extreme conditions for 27 yrs. You don't care about either being. You care about appropriating injustices @ your convenience.

[@disheemthomas4553]

@@moki7685 Who are you to say so? Who is innocent, well or sane after 27 yrs in prison? 🤔 Yeah use your brain. Your take is solely based on wishful & convenient thinking.

[@disheemthomas4553]

​@@moki7685 & I hope you aren't referring 2 the clip in this video. If you are, that explains A LOT. This video of him is clearly not within the last 2 decades.