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

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

Bowman’s execution was the third carried out in South Carolina since 2011, when the state unofficially halted executions as ...

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 ...

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

I hope they find peace.” This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, awaits execution on death row. Credit: AP Bowman's final meal ...

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 ...

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's death would mark the first execution in the U.S. in 2025. Twenty-five executions were carried out in the country last year. South Carolina paused executions for 13 years in part because ...