Federal court denies motion to halt execution in South Carolina killing
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution, which is set for Friday night.
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to halt his execution over concerns about the secrecy surrounding the drugs used for lethal injection.
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Court documents stated Bowman alleged his constitutional rights to procedural due process were violated by the state’s refusal to provide him with particular information about the drugs the state’s Department of Corrections has obtained to carry out the execution.
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- Donnie Council is among the men on South Carolina’s death row. He was sent to prison in 1996, convicted of tying up a 72-year-old widow, sexually assaulting her, forcing her to drink cleaning solution and suffocating her.
A federal judge denied the request, finding that Bowman was not deprived of due process since he was able to choose lethal injection as his method of execution earlier this month.
Bowman’s legal team has filed a notice of appeal for this decision.
He has been on death row since 2002 for his murder case of 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was shot in the head and her body was found in the trunk of a car that had been burned in a rural area of Dorchester County.
Bowman is now set to be the third inmate in South Carolina to be executed since the state resumed capital punishment.
Bowman had made his final appeal in December to the Supreme Court to stop his execution.
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