The South Carolina prisoner was executed on Friday, and in four months, he was executed through a backlog of a prisoner who was tired of his complaint when the state could not get a fatal injection. 。
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, was convicted of a 21 -year -old Candy Martin's murder of a 21 -year -old Kandy Martin's murder, who was found in 2001 in 2001. At 6:27 pm, it was executed by a fatal injection. 。
Bowman has maintained his innocence since his arrest. At the beginning of his last statement, he said, “I didn't kill Candy Martin.”
His lawyer raised his belief and pointed out that he was convicted of a few friends and parent Relative's words in exchange for his testimony.
The South Carolina man was sentenced to death during the execution in November, worried about drugs after the problem.
44 -year -old Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at 6:27 pm by lethal injection. (The Orthodontary Bureau via South Carolina AP)
When the curtain to the dead room opened, Bowman temporarily looked at his lawyer on the other side of the glass in the witness room, looked back at the ceiling, closed his eyes, and looked up. We opened the second time.
After Bowman's lawyer finished his final statement and poetry, his breathing became heavy, and he blew off his lips while exhaling. In less than a minute, his breathing stopped. Twenty minutes later, a doctor with a stethoscope listened to his chest, put his hand on his neck, and tapped him lightly when she was over.
Bowman stated in a final statement that death row prisoners could be considered the worst worst, but they all grew and “when they have a moment when they cost all of them.” It has changed.
“Knowing that Kandy's family is painful, they are just angry,” said Bowman. “If my death brings them to them to concentrate on good times and interesting stories, I think it was useful for their purpose. I hope they find peace.”
For his last meal, Bowman had fried seafood such as shrimp, fish and oysters. There were chicken wings and bidding, onion rings, banana pudding, German chocolate cake, cranberry juice, and pineapple juice.
Bowman was offered a judicial transaction for life imprisonment, but instead said he was not guilty and went to trial.
His execution was the third in South Carolina since September. In September, one of the busy states for execution ended the 13 -year pause when execution was executed. The suspension is partially partially difficult to obtain a fatal injection after the supply has expired, just for the concern that pharmaceutical companies must disclose what they sold to state authorities. It was caused. Later, the state parliament passed the Shield Law to enable authorities to keep the authority a fatal injection supplier.
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This photo shows a state of death in Colombia, South Carolina. To this, there are electric chairs, right, and shooting squaders on the left. (Orthodontary and files via South Carolina AP)
In July, the State Supreme Court cleared how to resume execution. Freddie Owens died on September 20, Richard Moore was executed on November 1, and both men chose to die with fatal injections.
This was the first execution in the United States this year after 25 people were held in Japan last year. The court will permit the execution every five weeks until the other three prisoners who have exhausted the appeal are executed.
South Carolina executed 46 prisoners in 1976 after the resumption of death in the United States. In the early 2000s, the state was executed three times a year. Only nine states killed more prisoners.
Bowman did not ask the Republican Governor Henry McMaster for generosity, but pointed out that the governor's office still announced a letter that denied tolerance and received an unofficial request and petition to save Bowman's lives. did.
The governor in the state has never completed the death penalty in prison in the present age of the death penalty.
Bowman's lawyer Lindsay Van said his client did not want to spend decades in prison for the crime he did not commit. He had already spent more than half of his life in prisoners.
“After more than 20 years with the broken system that failed him every time, Marion's decision has already strongly refused to justify the unreasonable process that stolen most of his life,” Van said. He stated in a statement on Thursday.
Bowman was convicted in 2002 in Dowchester County in connection with the death of Martin the previous year. As part of the judiciary, several friends and family testified to him as part of the contract with prosecutor.
One friend said that Bowman was upset because Martin borrowed him, but Bowman testified that he believed that Martin was wearing a recording device to arrest him.
A room where prisoners are executed in Columbus, South Carolina. (The Orthodontary Bureau via South Carolina AP)
Bowman said he had sold drugs to his friend Martin for years, and he would sometimes pay for sex, but he did not kill her.
His final appeal from his current lawyer argued that Bowman's lawyer was not ready and was too sympathetic to the blacks, not the blacks. The South Court of South Carolina refused to discuss.
Bowman's lawyer also raised concerns about his execution for his weight. The anesthesiologist said that South Carolina's secretly fatal injection protocol was afraid that Bowman, who was 389 pounds in prison records, did not consider heavy. Drugs needed for obese people.
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His lawyer was concerned that the drug, which had died in November, had needed two mass administration, more than 11 minutes away.
An anesthesiologists involved in Moore's examination of the parents -in -law record showed liquids in the lungs, and the lawyer consciously experienced DR death and suffocation emotions in 23 minutes to bring his death. He said he believed.
AP communication has contributed to this report.
