The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

He is set to be put to death on Jan. 31, according to a state Supreme Court ... Forced to make the barbaric choice between a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection, Marion Bowman ...

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16 ... the state argued that Bowman could have chosen a firing squad or electric chair for his execution, but he opted to die by lethal injection ...

LANSING, MI -- Despite abolishing the death penalty in 1963 ... family wanted Frazier sentenced to life in prison, “the electric chair” or “the same treatment” he gave Crystal.

“He has already spent more than half of his life on death row.” “After more than two ... used by hangmen to the voltage used by the electric chair. South Carolina law allows inmates to ...