Gov. Henry McMaster will decide whether to commute Freddie Eugene Owens’s sentence just minutes before the execution is scheduled to begin. Undated photo of Freddie Eugene Owens. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Corrections Owens was convicted in 1999 of the murder of Irene Graves during a robbery of a Speedway convenience store in 1997. He filed motions to stay the execution on Aug. 30 and Sept. 5, but the court denied the motions in a Sept. 12 order. Owens then submitted an “...