A South Carolina The prisoner was executed on Friday, which is the third time in four months, as the state carried out the death penalty because it was going through the accumulation of prisoners who exhausted their calls when the state was unable to obtain deadly injections.
Marion Powman Junior, 44, was executed by deadly injection at 6:27 pm for his conviction for killing on the death of his friend, Kanye Martin, 21, who was found his burning body in the car box in 2001.
Bowman has been innocent since his arrest. He said at the beginning of his last statement: “I did not kill Candy Martin.”
His lawyer raised questions about his conviction, noting that he was convicted of the word of many friends and relatives who received call deals with the prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.
Marion Powman Junior, 44, was executed by deadly injection at 6:27 pm (The Ministry of Reform, South Carolina, via AP)
When I opened the curtain to the death room, Bowman briefly looked at his lawyer on the other side of the glass in the witness's room before he looked back on the ceiling and closed his eyes, and opened his eyes once or twice as he looked up.
After Buman's lawyer finished reading his final statement and his cutting, his breathing became heavy, and his lips were blown out. In less than a minute, his breathing stops. Twenty minutes later, a doctor listened with a headphone with his chest and put his hand on his neck, while connecting him as it ended.
Buman said in his last statement that he may be seen as prisoners of death as the worst, but they all grew and changed from “they were when they had their moments that cost them everything.”
“I know that the Candy family is suffering from pain, it is justified,” Bowman said. “If my death brings them some relief and ability to focus on good times and funny stories, I think it will serve a purpose. I hope they will find peace.”
To eat his last meal, Bowman had received fried seafood, including shrimp, fish and shellfish, as well as chicken wings and tenders, onion rings, banana pudding, German chocolate cake, cranberry juice and pineapple juice.
Bowman was offered a deal to sentenced life to life imprisonment, but instead he went to trial because he said he was not guilty.
His execution was the third in South Carolina since September, when the state-which was one day, was one of the most crowded in executions-and a 13-year-old pause in carrying out the death penalty. Part of which caused the state to have difficulty obtaining deadly injection drugs after the end of its supplies due to the concerns of the pharmaceutical companies that they will have to reveal that they have sold medicines to state officials. Then the state legislative council passed a shield law that allows officials to preserve the suppliers of fatal medicines.
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This image shows the state's death room in Colombia, South Carolina, including the electric chair, the right, and the shooting band. (The Ministry of Correspondence at South Carolina via AP, File)
In July, and The Supreme Court of the State Wipe the road to resume executions. Freddy Owens died on September 20, and Richard Moore was executed on November 1, as both men chose to die by deadly injection.
This was the first execution in the United States this year after 25 were carried out in the country last year. The court will allow the execution of every five weeks until the other three prisoners who have run out of appeal will be executed.
South Carolina has implemented 46 prisoners since the death penalty was resumed in the United States in 1976. In the early first decade of the twentieth century, the state was carrying out three executions per year. Only nine states killed more guests.
Republican ruler Henry McMaster did not ask for compassion, but the ruler's office is still issuing a speech that denies the mercy, indicating that he had received unofficial requests and submission to spare the life of Powman.
No ruler in the state said from the death penalty to life imprisonment without the conditional release in the modern era of the death penalty.
Buman's lawyer, Lindsay van, said that his client does not want to spend additional contracts in prison for a crime he did not commit. He has already spent more than half of his life in the death row.
“After more than two decades, a broken regime failed at every turn, Marion's decision is a strong rejection to give legitimacy to an unfair operation that has already stole a lot of his life,” Van said in a statement on Thursday.
Bowman I was convicted in Dorschest County In 2002 regarding Martin's death in the previous year. Many friends and family members have seen him as part of the call deals with the prosecutors.
A friend said that Bowman was annoyed because Martin owes him with money, while he witnessed again that Bowman believed that Martin was wearing a recording device to arrest him.
The room where prisoners are carried out in Columbus, South Carolina. (The Ministry of Reform, South Carolina, via AP)
Bowman said that he had bitten drugs to Martin, who was a friend of him for years, and sometimes he would have sex, but he said he did not kill her.
The final appeal from his current lawyer argued that the Bowman's trial lawyer was not prepared and had a lot of sympathy for the white victim, not Bowman, who is black. South Court of South Carolina rejected the argument.
Bowman's lawyers also raised concerns about his execution because of his weight. One of the anesthetic specialists said that he fears that the secret fatty -deadly injection protocols in South Carolina did not take into account that Bowman, was listed as 389 lbs in prison records, was heavier, as it may be difficult to enter IV properly into a bloody container and determine the necessary drug dose in Persons with obesity.
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His lawyers were concerned that the drug used to put Moore to death in November required two large doses more than 11 minutes.
Anesthesia doctor involved in reviewing the out autopsy records said that they had shown fluids in the lungs, which prompted lawyers to believe that “he suffered from feelings of drowning and suffocation during the 23 minutes that took them to fulfill his death.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
