Freddie Owens, who will now die by lethal injection, said it would be ‘akin to suicide’ to participate in decision
in South Carolina since 2011 has decided that he should die by lethal injection after the prisoner refused to choose between three different killing methods, saying that to do so would be “akin to suicide”.
Freddie Owens is now set to be executed using a fatal dose of the sedative pentobarbital. The prisoner had been given until Friday to decide between the three execution methods: lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Owens had joined other death row inmates in objecting to both the electric chair and firing squad as cruel and unusual forms of punishment banned under the US constitution. He had also objected to signing the form that would decide between the three techniques on grounds that to do so would mean he were participating in his own killing – equivalent to suicide, he said, which is forbidden by his Muslim faith.
Much of that delay was caused by the difficulty South Carolina has had in procuring lethal injection drugs, given a global boycott by pharmaceutical companies unhappy with their medical products being used to kill people. The state has adoptedOwens’ defense team is now hoping that it can delay the pending execution through last-ditch legal challenges.
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