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 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.

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murdering Kaylee Martin and setting her body on fire in South Carolina’s Dorchester County.

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., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South Carolina this year. Bowman, a native of ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at 6:27 p.m. Bowman, 44, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car.

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 hear his case.

Marion Bowman Jr. is expected to be executed on Jan. 31 after being convicted in 2002 of murdering 21-year-old Bamberg resident Kandee Martin in Orangeburg.

Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is scheduled to die Friday evening by lethal injection for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.

COLUMBIA — Marion Bowman Jr. said the public should be wary he is about to be executed based on the words of three men who benefited from testifying against him rather than on the physical ...