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South Carolina executes Marion Bowman Jr., maintaining innocence in 2001 murder. Third execution since Sep. 2024.
Marion Bowman, Jr. [AP Photo/South Carolina Department of Corrections] Bowman’s was the first US execution of 2025 and the third in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted ...
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.
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 ...
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, was executed by lethal injection at 6:27 p.m. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...
South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...