South Carolina has executed their first death row prisoner this year, Marion Bowman Jr., who has been in prison since 2002 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate ... yet he has already spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good ...

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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.

But since the unintentional execution pause, South Carolina’s death row population has dwindled. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 30. About 20 inmates have been ...

On Friday, Bowman opted to select death 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 ...

South Carolina has executed Marion Bowman Jr., the third inmate to die at the hands of the state since executions resumed in ...

This undated photo shows Marion Bowman Jr. released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, awaits execution on death row. Credit: AP He is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Friday with a single ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate ... spent more than half of his life on death row. He cannot in good conscience ask ...

South Carolina Death Row Inmate Maintains His Innocence and Won't Ask for Clemency COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate ...