South Carolina plans to execute Marion Bowman Jr. on Friday for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

South Carolina is preparing to execute a third inmate since September following a 13-year pause, due to the state not finding lethal injection drugs. Marion Bowman Jr.'s execution is scheduled for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find ...

South Carolina has executed Marion Bowman Jr., the third inmate to die at the hands of the state since executions resumed in September 2024.Bowman, 44, was exec. WACH Columbia.

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September. Marion Bowman Jr.’s execution is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison.

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...

This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, awaits execution on death row. Credit: AP. By The Associated PressUpdated January 31, 2025.

South Carolina paused executions for 13 years in part because state officials could not obtain lethal injection drugs. The General Assembly passed a shield law, and prison officials were able to ...

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states ...

People protest prior to the scheduled execution of Marion Bowman Jr. outside of a South Carolina Department of Corrections facility, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco) ...