Colombia, SC – South Carolina is preparing to implement A third prisoner To be executed since September, when the state is going through the accumulation of prisoners who have exhausted their calls, while the state was unable to find deadly injections.
Marion Powman Junior to implement It is scheduled to be held at 6 pm on Friday in Colombia Prison. Bowman, 44, was convicted of death for the death of a friend of his burning body in the car box.
Bowman has Maintain his innocence Since his arrest. His lawyers said that he was convicted of the speech of many friends and relatives who received deals or were charged by prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.
Puman, who was in the death row more than half of his life, got a deal to sentenced to life imprisonment but went to trial because he said he was not guilty.
The implementation of Friday will be followed by the state’s lifting a He stopped for 13 years Partially caused because state officials were unable to obtain fatal injection drugs. The General Assembly approved the Shield Law and the prison officials were able to find a double pharmacy ready to make the pantobarbital if its identity is not public.
Bowman does not ask Henry McMaster’s ruler about the compassion. His lawyer, Lindsay Van, said that Bowman does not want to spend more decades in prison because of a crime he did not commit.
“After more than two decades, a broken regime failed at every turn, Marion’s decision is a strong refusal to give legitimacy to an unfair operation that has already stole a lot of his life,” Van said in a statement on Thursday.
No ruler in the previous 45 executions of South Carolina has been granted since the death penalty in 1976 has been given mercy and reduced the death penalty to imprisonment in life without conditional release.
Bowman was convicted of Dorschest County in 2002 for killing of the 21 -year -old Candy Martin in 2001. A number of friends and family members witnessed him as part of acknowledgment deals.
A friend said that Bowman was angry because Martin owes him with money. Bowman believed the second witness that Martin was wearing a recording device to arrest him on charges.
Bowman said that he had bitten drugs to Martin, who was a friend of him for years and sometimes she would have sex, but he denied killing her.
Black Buman, like the other prisoners who have been executed since the end of the stop. the Final appeal His lawyer, his lawyer, told his lawyer a lot of sympathy for his white victim. He called the Supreme Court of South Carolina to the argument without success.
There is another concern that Bowman’s lawyers raised his weight. One of the anesthesiologists said he feared that the deadly South Carolina injection protocols do not take into account that Bowman was included as 389 pounds (176 kg) in prison records. It may be difficult to obtain IV properly in a bloody container and determine the dose of the necessary medications in obese people.
Prison officials used two doses of Bentoparbital, given 11 minutes In the previous implementationAccording to the autopsy records.
Before stopping for 13 years, South Carolina was among the most congestion of deaths. The Shield Law, which was passed last year, allowed the Pantobarbital supplier used to kill prisoners to stay secretly and prison officials were able to find a pharmacy guaranteed ready to sell drugs.
The Supreme Court of the State Wipe To restart executions in July. Freddy Owens was Put up The deadly injection September 20 and Richard Moore It was implemented on November 1.
The court will allow the execution of every five weeks until the other three prisoners who have run out of appeal will be executed.
South Carolina has placed 45 prisoners to death since the death penalty in the United States was restarted in 1976. In the early first decade of the twentieth century, it was carried out three executions on average annually. Nine states put more guests to death.
But since the unintended execution has stopped, the South Carolina population has diminished. The state had 63 prisoners in early 2011. It currently had 30. They set out in the death row He received various prison sentences after successful calls. Others died for natural reasons.
