Freddie Owens was executed in South Carolina days after a key prosecution witness said he had lied on the stand decades earlier.

Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop it. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m., making him the first inmate executed in South Carolina in nearly 14 years.

The state Supreme Court set the order in which the men would be executed with the earliest for a Spartanburg man in October and into March for others

South Carolina executes first death row inmate in 13 years - Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, died by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in C