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A South Carolina The inmate was executed on Friday, for the third time in four months the state carried out the death penalty when it goes through a deficit of occupants that exhausted its appeals when the state was not able to receive fatal injection medication.
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, was executed by a fatal injection at 6:27 p.m. because of his murder conviction at the shooting of his friend, 21-year-old Kandeee Martin.
Bowman has retained his innocence since his arrest. At the beginning of his last statement, he said: “I didn’t kill Kande Martin.”
His lawyers asked questions about his conviction and found that he was convicted of the word of friends and relatives who received plea for their testimony with prosecutors.
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, was executed by fatal injection at 6:27 p.m. (South Carolina Department of Corrections about AP)
When the curtain opened up to the Chamber of Death, Bowman looked briefly at the Witness room on the other side of the glass before looking back at the ceiling and closed his eyes and opened his eyes once or twice when he looked up.
After reading his last statement and poem after Bowman’s lawyer, his breathing became heavy and he leafed his lips when he exhaled. His breathing stopped in less than a minute. Twenty minutes later, a doctor heard on his chest with a stethoscope and put a hand on his neck, walking it when she was done.
In his last explanation, Bowman said that the inmates of the parts of the country could be considered the worst, but they all grew and changed from what they were when they were when they had their moment who cost them everything “.
“I know that Kande’s family is in pain, they are rightly angry,” said Bowman. “If my death brings them relief and ability to concentrate on the good times and the funny stories, then it will probably have fulfilled a purpose. I hope they find peace.”
For his last meal, Bowman had fried seafood, including shrimp, fish and oysters as well as chicken wings and writers, onion rings, banana pudding, German chocolate cake, cranberry juice and pineapple juice.
Bowman was offered a plea for a lifelong prison sentence, but went to court instead because he said he was not guilty.
His execution was the third in South Carolina since September, when the state-one of the most busy for executions-a 13-year break ended in carrying out the death penalty. The break was partially caused by the state, which had difficulty getting fatal injection medication after his care had expired because the pharmaceutical companies’ concerns that they had sold the medication to state officials had to disclose. The state legislature then passed a shield law that allowed officials to keep fatal injection drug suppliers privately.
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This photo shows the State Chamber of Death in Columbia, South Carolina, including the electric chair, right and a firing cadre on the left. (South Carolina Department of Corrections on AP, file)
In July, the State Oberster Court solved the way to resume explanations. Freddie Owens was killed on September 20 and Richard Moore was executed on November 1, with both men decided on a fatal injection.
This was the first execution in the United States this year after 25 were carried out in the country last year. The Court of Justice allows an execution every five weeks until the other three occupants that have the appeals more are killed.
South Carolina has executed 46 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state carried out average three executions per year. Only nine states have killed more inmates.
Bowman did not ask the Republican governor Henry McMaster for mercy, but the governor’s office still published a letter in which the gn food was refused, and found that he received informal inquiries and petitions to save Bowman’s life.
No governor in the state has ever reduced a death sentence in prison without probation in the modern period of the death penalty.
Bowman’s lawyer, Lindsey Vann, said that his client did not want to spend any additional decades in prison for a crime that he had not committed. He had already spent more than half of his life in the death cell.
“After more than two decades of struggle against a broken system that did not pass it at every turn, Marion’s decision is a strong refusal to legitimize an unjust process that has already stole so much of his life,” said Vann am Thursday in an explanation.
Bowman was condemned in Dorchester County In 2002 in connection with Martin’s death in the previous year. Several friends and family members said against him as part of plea with prosecutors.
A friend said Bowman was annoyed because Martin owed him money while a second said that Bowman believed that Martin was wearing a recording device to arrest him.
The room in which occupants are executed in Columbus, South Carolina. (South Carolina Department of Corrections about AP)
Bowman said he sold drugs to Martin, who was a friend of his years, and sometimes she would pay for sex, but he said he didn’t kill her.
The last vocation of his current lawyers argued that Bowman’s process lawyer was not prepared and too much sympathy for the white victim and not for Bowman, who was black, was felt. South Carolina’s Supreme Court rejected the argument.
Bowman’s lawyers also expressed concerns about his execution due to his weight. An anesthetist said drugs that are needed in people with obesity.
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His lawyers were concerned that the drug, which Moore put to death in November, required two large doses more than 11 minutes away from each other.
An anesthetist who was involved in the review of Moore’s autopsy records said they showed liquid in the lungs and prompted the lawyers to assume that “in the 23 minutes it took to bring about his death”, consciously to drown and suffocate.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
