South Carolina is preparing for third execution since September

Columbia, SC – South Carolina prepares to perform Third Inserted To be killed since September as the state undergoes a backlog of prisoners who depleted their appeals while the state could not find fatal injection medicine.

Marion Bowman Jr.’s performance is scheduled for 7 p.m. 18 Friday in a prison in Columbia. Bowman, 44, was convicted of murder in shooting death by a friend whose burnt body was found in the trunk of a car.

Bowman has maintained his innocence Since his arrest. His lawyers said he was convicted of the word from several friends and family who received offers or had accused of prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.

Bowman, who has been on the death of the death of more than half of his life, was offered a plea for a life sentence, but went to trial because he said he was not guilty.

Friday’s execution follows the state lifting one 13-year-old break caused partly because state officials could not obtain fatal injection medicine. The general meeting passed a shield law and prison officials were able to find a composite pharmacy that was willing to do the pentobarbital if its identity was not published.

Bowman does not ask Head of Government Henry McMaster for drug addict. His lawyer, Lindsey Vann, said Bowman would not spend several decades in prison for a crime he did not commit.

“After more than two decades of fighting a ruined system that has failed him at every turn, Marion’s decision is a powerful rejection of legitimizing an unfair process that has already stolen so much of his life,” Vann said in one Statement Thursday.

No governor of the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 has given grace and reduced a death sentence to life in prison without trial.

Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002 for killing the killing of 21-year-old Kande Martin in 2001. A number of friends and family members testified against him as part of plea.

A friend said Bowman was angry because Martin owed him money. Another witnessed Bowman believed that Martin was wearing an admission unit to get him arrested on a charge.

Bowman said he was selling drugs to Martin, who was a friend of his for years, and sometimes she paid with sex but he refused to kill her.

Bowman is black like the other two inmates who were executed since the break ended. The Finally appeal From his lawyers said his lawyer had too much sympathy for his white victim. South Carolina Supreme Court called the argument merit.

Another concern raised by Bowman’s lawyers is his weight. An anesthesiologist said he fears that South Carolina’s secret mortal injection protocols do not take into account Bowman is listed as 389 pounds (176 kg in prison registers. It can be difficult to get an IV correctly in a blood vessel and determine the dose of the necessary medicines of People with obesity.

Prison officials used two doses of pentobarbital given 11 minutes In the previous executionAccording to autopsy records.

Before the 13-year-old break, South Carolina was among the busiest states for executions. A shield law passed last year, allowed the supplier of Pentobarbital, used to kill inmates to remain secret, and prison officials were able to find a composite pharmacy that was willing to sell the drug.

The State Supreme Court Cleared the way to restart executions in July. Freddie Owens was Killed by fatal injection 20. September and Richard Moore was executed on November 1st.

The court allows a execution every five weeks until the other three inmates who have run out of appeal are killed.

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, an average of three executions a year. Nine states have killed several inmates.

But since the unintended execution break, South Carolina’s death series population has subsided. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 30. About 20 inmates have been Removed death series and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have died for natural reasons.