Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

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.

Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in the trunk of her burned car.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16 ... the state argued that Bowman could have chosen a firing squad or electric chair for his execution, but he opted to die by lethal injection ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

He is set to be put to death on Jan. 31, according to a state Supreme Court ... Forced to make the barbaric choice between a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection, Marion Bowman ...

“Marion has steadfastly maintained his innocence of Kandee Martin’s murder, yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good ... hangmen to the voltage used by the ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty ... and the building of the nation’s first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890 ...

This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right ... awaits execution on death row. (South ...