At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten violence and say "betrayers will be slayed."

One of the most popular death row meals in history are that of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who didn't hold back when requesting a bucket of KFC chicken, 12 fried prawns, a pound of strawberries, French fries and a Diet Coke. Though, not everyone has such extortionate requests.

Williams' case demonstrates how the death penalty in America is meted out in the most arbitrary manner—to those denied adequate legal counsel, those facing racial discrimination at trial, those railroaded to death on “technicalities,

On Friday, a motion was filed to dismiss an indictment against Kerry Max Cook, 68, a man who was found innocent after spending 20 years on death row for the 1977 murder of a Tyler woman.

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.

In 1999, testimony from Freddie Owens’ accomplice in a deadly armed robbery helped sent Owens to South Carolina’s death row. Now Owens’ attorneys say prosecutors cut his co-defendant a secret deal to spare his life in exchange for his testimony.

A deeply troubled South Carolina inmate scarred by a traumatic childhood wrote letters on death row that at times threaten the ones he loves in chilling terms and at others show a vulnerable man who describes himself as being "fragile as a child.

Freddie Owens' execution appears to be moving forward despite a sworn statement from the man who testified against him that Owens wasn't even at the crime scene.