Man facing Friday performance in the Dorchester County murder

On February 1, 2025By Littum

Columbia, SC (WCSC) – South Carolina Death Row inmate, who is sentenced to die Friday by mortal injection, will not ask Head of Government Henry McMaster about drug addicts, a spokesman for his legal team said.

Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is ready to be killed for the murder case in 2001 by the 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in the trunk of a car that had been burned in a rural area of Dorchester County.

Lindsey S. Vann The CEO of Justice 360, Made the following statement on behalf of Marion Bowman and his legal team on Bowman’s rejection of seeking drug addict:

By maintaining his innocence, Marion Bowman, Jr. made the painful decision not to set Governor McMaster on drug addicts. Marion has steadfastly maintained his innocence of Kande Martin’s murder, yet he has already spent more than half his life on Death Row. He cannot, in good conscience, ask for a suspected grace that would require him to spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Marion’s execution would be an in -depth abortion of justice. The state sentenced him with incentive testimony from witnesses involved in Ms. Martin’s killing, but whose charges were placed or convicted in exchange for their unreliable testimonies. The state detained key certificate from the Armed Forces and the Jury-Isarre that the only witness who claimed to see Marion murder Martin had previously confessed to committing his murder himself. His own lawyer, whose parties led him to push Marion to plead guilty in place of preparing an appropriate defense, repeatedly introduced malignant racial stereotypes during the trial.

After more than two decades of fighting a broken system that has failed him on each trip, Marion’s decision is a powerful refusal to legitimize an unfair process that has already stolen so much of his life.

News about Bowman’s decision not to ask McMaster to intervene on the same day The US Supreme Court rejected a request to a stay of execution.

He had made his last appeal in December to South Carolina Supreme Court to stop his execution, which the court called “Meritess.”

Bowman had previously submitted a proposal for a preliminary order to stop his execution of concerns about the secrecy of the drugs used for fatal injection based on the state’s shield law. A federal judge rejected the request on Tuesday to stop his execution.

He will be the third inmate in South Carolina, who was executed since the state resumed the death penalty.