South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who ...

South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

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 ...

“She was robbed of getting that life.” Though he maintains his innocence, a jury convicted Marion Bowman Jr. of Martin’s murder. Nearly 24 years after her Feb. 16, 2001 death the now 44 ...

This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Marion Bowman Jr. This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Marion Bowman ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has denied the habeas corpus petition for Marion Bowman Jr., clearing the way for him to be the third person executed in the state since the death penalty was ...

Marion Bowman Jr., 44, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to halt his execution over concerns about the secrecy surrounding the drugs used for lethal injection. Court documents stated Bowman ...

Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is the third inmate set to die since the state was able to restart executions after a 13-year pause last year. All three have chosen lethal injection over the electric chair or ...

The state says that if Marion Bowman Jr. is so worried about dying by lethal injection on Jan. 31, it also offers a choice of the electric chair or death by a firing squad. “If Bowman’s ...