Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...

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 ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was sentenced to death for the killing of childhood friend Kandee Martin in 2001. He has maintained his ...

The daughter of a rebar contractor and a stay-at-home mom, Kandee grew up in Branchville in rural South Carolina and dreamed of moving to Charleston and starting a career. Bowman has always ...

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.

No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 has given mercy and reduced a death sentence to life in prison without parole.

Bowman was pronounced dead by a doctor at 6:27 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution, the site of South Carolina’s death chamber. Bowman was executed by lethal injection. On Thursday ...