COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has put inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in the state’s third execution since September. Marion Bowman Jr.’s execution took place Friday evening at a Columbia prison.

An anti-death penalty group is holding a vigil for a Lowcountry man who is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31.

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

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

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr., its third execution since September. Bowman, convicted of a 2001 murder, ...

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.

Marion Bowman Jr. dies Jan. 31, becomes third man put to death since South Carolina resumed executions. He was convicted of ...

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