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.

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

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

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...

In the statement detailing his final words, Bowman said he did not kill 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was killed in 2001 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has declined to grant Executive Clemency to Marion Bowman, Jr. According to authorities, Bowman was convicted of murder in the ...

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

At 6:10 p.m. the letter from McMaster was sent to the department of corrections to decline executive clemency for Bowman. A ...