South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

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

In the statement detailing his final words, Bowman said he did not kill 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was killed in 2001 and Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002.