South Carolina to execute Marion Bowman despite innocence claims
Family of Bowman, 44, plead for death sentence to be commuted as lawyers say ‘the system has failed him’
South Carolina is set to execute Marion Bowman Jr, a 44-year-old man who has maintained his innocence and in his final days became outspoken about the brutal conditions on death row.
The state, which has aggressively revived capital punishment after a 13-year pause, is due to kill Bowman by lethal injection at 6pm local time on Friday. It will be the first execution in the US of the new year.
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