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Man says he lied when he testified against inmate who is set to be executed (apnews.com)

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Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped send Owens to prison is saying he lied to save himself from the death chamber.

Owens is set to die at 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison for the killing of a Greenville convenience store clerk in 1997.

But Owens’ lawyers on Wednesday filed a sworn statement from his co-defendant Steven Golden late Wednesday to try to stop South Carolina from carrying out its first execution in more than a decade.

Prosecutors reiterated that several other witnesses testified that Owens told them he pulled the trigger. And the state Supreme Court refused to stop Owens’ execution last week after Golden, in a sworn statement, said that he had a secret deal with prosecutors that he never told the jury about.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

No, because that's the point.

They're not weak like us, they aren't troubled by such petty details like due process and justice. This is about order more than law.

Live there for a while, you learn the sheriff is the local feudal lord, and you better bow and scrape if you want to get by.