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South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September

South Carolina has put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs. Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs, Marion Bowman Jr.

was executed at 6:27 p.m. Bowman, 44, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car.

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