On January 31, 2025, 44-year-old Marion Bowman Jr. was put to death by lethal injection in the Broad River Correctional Institution. After receiving a single dose of pentobarbital , Bowman was pronounced dead at 6.27pm.

5 days ago · South Carolina plans to execute Marion Bowman Jr. on Friday for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, who was killed five days before her son's second birthday. Police ...

5 days ago · Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at 6:27 p.m. Bowman, 44, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car. Bowman maintained his innocence since his arrest and started his final statement with “I did not kill Kandee Martin.”

5 days ago · Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. Convicted of murder in 2002 for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, Bowman has consistently ...

4 days ago · COLUMBIA — Marion Bowman Jr. died by lethal injection Jan. 31, becoming the first person executed in the United States this year and the third man put to death in South Carolina since the state ...

5 days ago · 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.

4 days ago · Death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old Dorchester County native, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking 2025's first execution in South Ca