Killer's face TWITCHES while he's put to death by lethal injection... as his final word is revealed

A antheral who killed 2 radical successful acold humor uttered conscionable 1 connection earlier helium was executed in a South Carolina situation connected Friday - the state's archetypal successful 13 years.

Freddie Owens said 'bye' to his lawyer and was past strapped into a gurney wherever helium awaited the lethal injection that led to his eventual demise.

Owens remained conscious for a infinitesimal earlier his eyes closed, his breaths shortened and his look twitched for 5 minutes earlier helium died. 

The 46-year-old killed convenience store clerk Irene Graves during a botched robbery successful Greenville successful 1997.

During his trial, helium murdered chap inmate Christopher Lee astatine a region jailhouse which earned him the decease penalty.

Owens' execution was the archetypal carried retired successful South Carolina successful 13 years amid a conflict to root the required drugs for lethal injections.

After helium said his farewell, his lawyer responded 'bye' and the injection was administered.

A doc came successful and declared him dormant a small much than 10 minutes aboriginal astatine 6.55pm. 

His past repast was 2 cheeseburgers, French fries, well-done ribeye steak, six chickenhearted wings, 2 strawberry sodas and a portion of pome pie. 

Owens’ last-ditch appeals were repeatedly denied, including by a national tribunal connected Friday morning.

His execution was thrown into past infinitesimal chaos aft a cardinal witnesser said successful a sworn connection that helium lied successful bid to person him convicted. 

On Wednesday, his lawyers filed a connection from his co-defendant Steven Golden saying that Owens wasn't astatine the store astatine the clip erstwhile Graves was killed. 

Golden said that helium had blamed Owens, who was 19 astatine the time, due to the fact that helium was precocious connected cocaine and facing unit from police. 

He wrote: 'I thought the existent shooter oregon his associates mightiness termination maine if I named him to police. I americium inactive acrophobic of that. But Freddie was not there.'

But contempt Golden's recantation, the South Carolina Supreme Court  ruled connected Thursday it wasn't capable to halt situation officials from executing Owens. 

Prosecutors said that respective different witnesses testified that Owens had been the 1 that pulled the trigger. 

Those witnesses had been friends of Owens who said helium had bragged to them astir sidesplitting Graves. His erstwhile woman besides testified that helium confessed to the killing. 

Since the unintentional execution pause, South Carolina’s decease enactment colonisation has dwindled.

The authorities had 63 condemned radical successful aboriginal 2011. It present has 31 aft Owens’ decease connected Friday.

About 20 radical person been taken disconnected decease enactment and received antithetic situation sentences aft palmy appeals. Others person died of earthy causes.