Jan. 31 (UPI) --South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. became first person executed in the United States in 2025 on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to ...

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 lethal injection drugs.

Marion Bowman Jr. was executed on Jan. 31. The Dorchester County native, who was convicted of shooting and killing 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001, chose to die by lethal injection, which in South ...