The state Supreme Court set the order in which the men would be executed with the earliest for a Spartanburg man in October and into March for others

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, died by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause.

The State Department of Corrections could carry out another execution as early as late october after south carolina’s first death sentence in 13 years last frid

Death row inmates in five states, not including Florida, are scheduled to be put to death in the coming week defying a decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. Executions are planned in Alabama,

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However, no governor has done that in the state’s 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, died by lethal injection on Friday evening after the US Supreme Court refused to stop the execution and the state’s governor Henry McMaster denied clemency. Allah, who was previously known as Freddie Owens,

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.