COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September.

South Carolina has put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

Witnesses who watched the execution of a man convicted in a 2001 Dorchester County murder are expected to speak shortly. Marion Bowman Jr.‘s execution was scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia ...

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...