At times, Freddie Eugene Owens' letters are incredibly vulnerable as he says he's "also human." At others they threaten violence and say "betrayers will be slayed"

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However, no governor has done that in the state’s 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.

The plane — most of it, at least — returned to Myrtle Beach International Airport less than 10 minutes after takeoff.

The single-engine aircraft, a Diamond DA40, declared an emergency after the door plummeted into the yard of a vacant home.

Wendy Hodges, who lives in the area, was leaving her home when someone rushed over to tell her a piece of an airplane had fallen off.