The killer, Marion Bowman Jr. (June 6, 1980 - January 31, 2025), was arrested and charged with murder and arson. [1] Bowman, who killed Martin over a monetary dispute, was found guilty of both counts, and sentenced to death for the charge of murdering Martin, while receiving a ten-year jail term for the other charge of third-degree arson.

6 days ago · 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 ...

Jan 31, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 31, 2025 · COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.. 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 …

6 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 ...

6 days ago · Marion Bowman Jr., 44, who was convicted for the murder of his longtime friend Kandee Martin, was executed tonight in the state of South Carolina just after 6 p.m. on Friday, January 31, 2025. Bowman, who has maintained his innocence since his arrest, became the third Black man to be executed in South Carolina in four months after the state restarted its death …

Jan 31, 2025 · 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.

Jan 31, 2025 · A death row killer who shot his friend before her bullet-ridden body was found in a scorched car is set to be executed on Friday.. Marion Bowman Jr. maintains that he did not murder 21-year-old ...

Jan 31, 2025 · 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

Jan 27, 2025 · South Carolina death row inmate Marion Bowman is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution of the year in the U.S. The death penalty is a legal form of...