South Carolina executes a man convicted of murder in the third state execution of September

AND South Carolina The prisoner was executed on Friday for the third time in four months, the state carried out a death sentence as he passes through the backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals when the state was unable to get deadly drugs.

Marion Bowman JR

Bowman has maintained his innocence since his arrest. He said at the beginning of his last statement, “I didn’t kill Kandee Martin.”

His lawyers asked questions about his belief, noting that he was sentenced to the word several friends and relatives who received the guilt agreements with prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.

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When the curtain opened to the death chamber, Bowman briefly looked at his lawyer on the other side of the glass in the witness room before looking back into the ceiling and closed his eyes, opening his eyes once or twice as he looked up.

After Bowman’s lawyer finished reading his last statement and song, his breathing became difficult, and he blew his lips as he exhaled. In less than a minute, his breathing stopped. Twenty minutes later, the doctor with a stethoscope listened to his chest and put his hand on his neck, patting him as she finished.

In his latest statement, Bowman said that the prisoners of Death Row could be considered the worst of the worst, but they were all adults and changed from what they “were when they had their moment that cost them all.”

“I know Kandee’s family is pain, they are justifiably angry,” Bowman said. “If death brings them a little relief and ability to focus on good times and funny stories, then I suppose it will serve a purpose. I hope they find peace.”

For his last meal, Bowman had fried seafood, including shrimp, fish and oyster, as well as chicken wings and tenders, onion rings, banana pudding, German chocolate cake, cranberry juice and pineapple juice.

Bowman was offered an agreement on a recognition of guilt for a life sentence, but instead he went to the trial because he said he was not guilty.

His execution was third in South Carolina since September, when the State-Nekada one of the most prominent to execute-a 13-year break in conducting a death penalty. The break was partly caused by a state that has difficulty in obtaining deadly injection drugs after the supply expired due to the concern of pharmaceutical companies that they would have to discover that they had sold medicines to state officials. The state legislative body then passed the Protector Act that allowed the officers to remain private suppliers of medication for injection.

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In July, State Supreme Court cleaned the way to continue the execution. Freddie Owens was executed on September 20, and Richard Moore was executed on November 1, and they both decided to die a deadly injection.

This was the first execution in the United States this year after 25 in the country was spent in the country last year. The court will allow execution every five weeks as long as the other three prisoners ran out of complaints.

South Carolina has executed 46 prisoners since the death sentence continued in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state spent an average of three executions per year. Only nine countries killed more prisoners.

Bowman did not ask the Republican government Henry McMaster for mercy, but the Governor’s Office still published a letter in which he denied mercy, noting that he had received informal demands and pleas for spare Bowman’s life.

No governor in the country has ever reduced his death sentence to a life prison without suspended discharge at the modern era of the death penalty.

Bowman’s lawyer, Lindsey Vann, said his client did not want to spend an additional decade in prison for a crime he had not committed. He has already spent more than half of his life at the death penalty.

“After more than two decades of fighting a broken system that has failed him at every turn, Mariona’s decision is a strong rejection of the legitimation of an unjust process that has already stolen his life so much,” Vann said in a statement on Thursday.

Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County 2002 in connection with Martin’s death a year before. Several friends and family members testified against him as part of a confession agreement with the prosecutors.

A friend said Bowman had been upset because Martin owed him money, while another testified that Bowman believed Martin had worn a recording device to arrest him.

Bowman said he was selling drugs to Martin, who has been his friend for years, and sometimes he will pay with sex, but said he did not kill her.

The last complaint of his current lawyers claimed that Bowman’s trial was not ready and that he was too sympathy for the white victim, not Bowman, who is black. South Carolina Supreme Court rejected the argument.

Bowman’s lawyers also caused concern about his execution for his weight. The anesthesiologist said that he fears that the deadly injection protocols did not take into account in South Carolina that Bowman, listed as £ 389 in prison records, was harder, as it may be difficult to properly insert IV into the blood vessel and determine the dose of the medicines required People with obesity.

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His lawyers were concerned that the cure that Moore had been death in November could require two large doses for more than 11 minutes.

The anesthesiologist who was involved in the review of Moore’s records on the autopsy said that they showed fluid in the lungs, leading lawyers to believe that he “consciously experienced feelings of drowning and suffocation for 23 minutes he needed to bring his death.”

Associated Press contributed to this report.