South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date for what would be the state’s first execution in more than 13 years. Freddie Eugene Owens will likely have the choice to die by lethal injection, electrocution or by a newly added firing squad. South Carolina hasn't put anyone to death since its supply of lethal injection drugs expired after a 2011 execution.
South Carolina was once one of the busiest states for executions, but for years had had trouble obtaining lethal injection drugs due to pharmaceutical companies’ concerns that they would have to disclose that they had sold the drugs to officials.
Owens, who killed a store clerk in Greenville in 1997, will likely have the choice to die by lethal injection, electrocution or by the newly added option of a. A Utah inmate in 2010 was the last person to have been executed by a firing squad in the U.S., according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
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