On Friday, Jan. 31, the state of South Carolina executed Marion Bowman by lethal injection for the 2001 shooting death of Kandee Martin in Dorchester County. Bowman maintained his innocence for ...

South Carolina executes Marion Bowman Jr., maintaining innocence in 2001 murder. Third execution since Sep. 2024.

Bowman’s execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as pharmaceutical companies stopped supplying lethal injection drugs ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 … ...

A South Carolina inmate convicted in his friend's killing was put to death on Friday, marking the state's third execution in four months.

Marion Bowman Jr, 44, was executed at a prison in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, the state’s Department of Corrections said.

In the statement detailing his final words, Bowman said he did not kill 21-year-old Kandee Martin. “I know that Kandee’s family is in pain, they are justifiably angry,” Bowman said.

Marion Bowman Jr. was executed Friday in South Carolina, marking the first U.S. execution of 2025. He maintained his innocence in Kandee Martin’s death.

Friday’s execution was the third in South Carolina since September as the state ended a 13-year pause in executions caused in part because officials couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.