(Columbia, SC)-- Civil rights and religious leaders are joining forces to save the life of a death row inmate.
Reverend David Kennedy and others asked Governor Henry McMaster yesterday to grant clemency to Freddie Owens. He was convicted of killing a gas station clerk in Greenville County over 25-years ago.
Owens is set to be executed next Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution.
Besides being reverend at New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, Kennedy is also with the Laurens County NAACP. He says the death penalty is traumatizing, and there has to be another way to hold people accountable.
McMaster said yesterday he'll announce his decision next Friday.