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.

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin five days before her son's second birthday.

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

South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...

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

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

Marion Bowman Jr. is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. inside of South Carolina’s death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Marion Bowman Jr. This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Marion Bowman ...

Marion Bowman Jr.'s request to stop his execution ... 44, will be the third Black man to be executed in South Carolina in four months after the state restarted its death chamber following a ...

This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, awaits execution on death row. Credit: AP Bowman said he sold Martin drugs and sometimes when ...