South Carolina seeks to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad; says painless death not required
Four South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued that the electric chair and firing squad execution methods are cruel and unusual punishments.
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South Carolina man chooses to die by lethal injection instead of electric chair or firing squad
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.
'I did not do it': South Carolina man set for execution argues innocence, racial bias
Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...
Death Row Inmate Marion Bowman, Who Refused Plea Deal, to Be Executed
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.
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Third South Carolina death row inmate chooses to die by lethal injection
In South Carolina, death row inmates are given the choice of dying by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad. Like Owens and Moore, Bowman is Black. Like Owens, Bowman was a young man ...
South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September
South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...