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 · 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.

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.

5 days ago · Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

5 days ago · 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.

5 days ago · South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

6 days ago · Marion Bowman Jr., a death row inmate in South Carolina, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Friday for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Bowman's attorneys are raising ...

6 days ago · Marion Bowman, convicted of killing a woman and lighting her body on fire, was the third death row inmate executed in SC since September

6 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.

6 days ago · A lawyer for a South Carolina death row inmate says he won't ask the governor for clemency. Marion Bowman Jr.'s decision came hours after the U.S.