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 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 death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is set to be executed on Jan. 31, 2024 for the murder of Kandee Martin.

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 ...

Part of Bowman's final appeal was that he didn't get a vigorous defense because his lawyer was racist and worried about what a jury in 2002 South Carolina would think about a Black man and a white ...

A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday.. Marion Bowman Jr. maintains that he did not murder 21-year-old ...

Marion Bowman was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a friend, Kandee Martin, and burning her body in the trunk of her car in Dorchester County in 2001. Inmate asks S.C. court to halt his ...

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 ...

An anesthesiologist told Bowman's lawyers that he fears South Carolina's lethal injection protocols don't take into account Bowman's weight, listed as 389 pounds (176 kilograms) in prison records.

A date has been set for the execution of South Carolina death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr. His execution is set for Jan. 31 following a notice issued Friday by the South Carolina Supreme Court.

South Carolina death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is set to be executed on Jan. 31, 2024 for the murder of Kandee Martin.