A witness whose testimony was instrumental in putting a man on death row has made a bombshell confession days before the convicted man was scheduled for lethal injection. On Wednesday, lawyers for Freddie Owens filed an emergency motion to halt his execution, scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at a South Carolina prison. Owens was convicted in a trial following the 1997 killing of Greenville store clerk Irene Graves. In the motion, lawyers included a sworn statement from the witness saying Owens was not even present for the murder that resulted in his death sentence. “The detectives told me they knew…
