South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go

Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s prisons director says the state’s supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training to carry out its first execution in more than 13 years. Freddie Owens is schedule to be put to death Sept, 20 for the killing of a convenience store clerk in Greenville in 1997.  Owens must decide by Sept. 6 which of the state’s three methods will be used to execute him. He has given his power of attorney to his lawyer to make that decision, but prison officials are asking the state Supreme Court if that is legal.