(1 Feb 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina - 31 January 2025
1. Wide of protesters holding signs
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, South Carolina Department of Corrections:
“The capital punishment sentence of Marion Bowman Jr was carried out tonight pursuant to the order of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in accordance with state law. The execution began at 6:04 p.m.. He was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:27 p.m.. Bowman was sentenced to death for murder and arson in the February 16th, 2001, death of 21 year old Kandee Louise Martin.”
3. Various of protestor holding a sign
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Emerson, WCIV ABC News 4, was witness to the execution with two other journalists:
“There is this glass partition between us, so we can't hear things very well, but we can sort of see that he was acknowledging and in a really friendly way for sure. And there was certainly a lot of or a fair amount of emotion coming from his lawyer as well to acknowledge that as well. And as you read the messaging that he sent out for his last statement, you'll see why, because he still was maintaining his innocence in that final statement as it was being read.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick O’Neill, North Carolina resident:
“Appears to me that a guy who turns down a plea bargain has proclaiming his innocence for 24 years. That's a compelling thing. You know, most people who get executed say sorry to the victim before they die and they accept, you know, what the state's going to do it if they don't like it. But this guy has a compelling case that he might be innocent and that's tragic too.”
8. Wide of protestor holding up a sign
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press reporter, was witness to the execution with two other journalists:
“Two minutes after the statement ended or a little longer than that, I didn't see any other movements. There were no more movements and no activity until 6:26 when the doctor came in. She put her stethoscope on his chest and a hand on his on his neck. And she sat there for nearly a minute. And when she was finished, she did a little pat on his chest and backed away. And they announced him dead.”
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STORYLINE:
South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it 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.
Bowman maintained his innocence since his arrest and started his final statement with “I did not kill Kandee Martin.”
His lawyers said he was convicted on the word of several friends and relatives who received deals or had charges dropped by prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.
When the curtain to the death chamber opened, Bowman briefly looked at his attorney on the other side of the glass in the witness room, then looked back at the ceiling and closed his eyes. He opened his eyes once or twice as he gazed up.
Once his attorney finished reading Bowman's three-minute final statement and poem, his breaths became heavy and he puffed his lips as he exhaled. In less than a minute, those breaths ceased. Twenty minutes later, a doctor with a stethoscope listened to his chest and placed a hand on his neck. She lightly patted him as she finished.
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