Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin five days before her son's second birthday.

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

Kandee Martin was shot once in the chest and once in the head on a dark country road, five days before her son's second ...

South Carolina executes Marion Bowman Jr., maintaining innocence in 2001 murder. Third execution since Sep. 2024.

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty.

Kandee Martin was shot once in the chest and once in the head on a dark country road, five days before her son's second ...

It was totally gross," Lisa Martin of Bowman, South Carolina, told USA TODAY this week, laughing at the memory. Although the family would tease Kandee about her often oddball taste in food (liver ...

South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

Kandee grew up in the tiny town of Branchville in rural South Carolina, about halfway between Charleston and Columbia. The town had limited employment options and was so small, Martin recalls that ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...