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

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South Carolina this year. Bowman, a native of

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.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has declined to grant Executive Clemency to Marion Bowman, Jr. According to authorities, Bowman was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car;

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the state since reinstating capital punishment.

Marion Bowman's attorneys say the deals were particularly unfair because prosecutors didn’t have physical evidence directly tying him to the killing of his friend Kandee Martin in 2001.

Marion Bowman Jr. was 20 years-old when he shot and killed Kandee Martin in Dorchester County, South Carolina.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.