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.

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

Bowman’s execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as pharmaceutical companies stopped supplying lethal injection drugs ...

South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.

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

Bowman, who has been on death row more than half his life, was offered a plea deal for a life sentence but went to trial because he said he was not guilty. Friday’s execution was the third in South ...

Friday’s execution was the third in South Carolina since September as the state ended a 13-year pause in executions caused in part because officials couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.

Ron Kaz protests 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.