Freddie Owens was executed with a lethal injection on Friday in South Carolina (Picture: AP)
The first inmate to be executed was Freddie Owens, 46, in South Carolina. He received a lethal injection on Friday evening, despite a friend’s eleventh-hour admission that he lied in testimony to save his own life.
Owens’ friend stated that the death row inmate was not at a convenience store when clerk Irene Graves was killed. But the state Supreme Court refused to halt the execution and the governor did not grant clemency.
He said ‘bye’ just before the lethal injection was administered.
Owens was the inmate to receive a lethal injection in 13 years in the state.
Texas: Travis Mullis
Travis Mullis was convicted of stomping his 3-month-old son dead (Picture: AP)
Texas is set to execute Travis Mullis, 38, who was convicted of stomping his 3-month-old son Alijah dead more than 16 years ago.
Mullis in February stated he did not intend to challenge his case, after owning up to killing his son and saying that ‘his punishment fit the crime’.
He is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
Mullis would the fourth inmate to be executed in the state that is the busiest in America when it comes to capital punishment.
Missouri: Marcellus Williams
Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 murder of a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch police reporter (Picture: AP)
Missouri is set to administer a lethal injection to Marcellus Williams, 55, on Tuesday. He was convicted in the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch police reporter.
Williams has continued to insist he is innocent, arguing that his DNA was not found at the crime scene.
But the state supreme court and governor on Monday denied clemency to Williams.
Williams would be the third inmate to be executed this year in Missouri.
Alabama: Alan Miller
Alan Eugene Miller who was convicted of capital murder in a workplace shooting rampage that killed three men in 1999 (Picture: AP)
Alabama is slated to execute Alan Miller, 59, on Thursday after he received a reprieve two years ago as officials were not able to find a vein to connect an intravenous line.
Miller was convicted of shooting three people in a workplace rampage in 1999, including two coworkers and a former supervisor.
He is set to die via a mask placed on his face at William C Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
Miller’s execution would be the first in the state using nitrogen gas and the second in the US.
Oklahoma: Emmanuel Littlejohn
Death row inmate Emmanuel Littlejohn was sentenced to death for the 1992 murder of the owner of an Oklahoma City convenience store during a robbery (Picture: AFP)
Oklahoma is set to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn, 31, using a lethal injection on Thursday.
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Littlejohn was convicted in the 1992 shooting during a robbery that left a convenience store owner dead.
He has claimed he did not shoot the storeowner. The state’s pardon and parole board recommended that the governor grant Littlejohn clemency, but no decision has been made.
Littlejohn would be the third inmate to be executed in Oklahoma this year.
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