Like any good mom, Irene Grainger Graves wanted to make sure her three children had a good life. She wanted it so much that she worked three jobs to not only put food on the table but to afford ...

He was convicted of the 1997 murder of Irene Grainger Graves, a single mother of three who worked as a convenience store clerk. No physical evidence connected Allah to the crime. The key evidence ...

When the clerk, Irene Graves, would not open the safe, Owens shot the mother of three in the head, Golden told the court at the time. Almost 30 years later, he says that was a lie. “Freddie Owens is ...

Now Golden has said he lied to the jury in 1999. “Freddie Owens is not the person who shot Irene Graves at the Speedway on November 1, 1997,” Golden wrote in the sworn statement filed to the ...

Moore is believed to be the only person in the history of South Carolina’s death penalty to be executed in connection with an armed robbery who did not bring the fatal weapon to the scene of the crime ...

Owens, 46, was found guilty by a jury of killing shop worker Irene Graves during an armed robbery in Greenville in 1997. He was executed despite his co-defendant signing a sworn statement this ...

“There is no indication that Golden will testify; there is no reasoning to why Owens would admit the shooting (of) Ms. Graves to officers, his girlfriend, and his mother if he was not the ...

More than 4,500 unmarked graves have been found where the workhouse ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London.

COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Freddie Owens' chances to live beyond 24 hours appear to be dwindling. The S.C. Supreme Court denied Owens' latest request to halt his execution, scheduled for Sept.

More than 4,500 unmarked graves have been found where the workhouse ... Bristol is about a 120-mile drive west from London. Irene Wright is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter. She earned a B.A ...