Summary
South Carolina’s Supreme Court scheduled its next execution for Jan. 31, resuming after a holiday pause.
Marion Bowman Jr., convicted of a 2001 murder, would be the third inmate executed since the state restarted executions in September after acquiring lethal injection drugs.
Bowman maintains his innocence, with his legal team arguing unresolved doubts and racial bias in his trial.
The state allows lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.
Bowman’s lawyers seek a postponement for further appeals, while South Carolina’s death row population has decreased amid legal challenges and successful appeals.
There’s so much wrong with this. Aren’t prisoners entitled to a speedy trial, so wouldn’t making them wait for their execution fly in the face of that rule? Also, lethal injection, electrocution, OR firing squad? I thought it was wrong to choose your own method of death?
The trial is long over by the time they’re murdered by the state. But I’m not sure why you would think it would be any more wrong to choose your method of death than to kill the prisoner in the first place.
In fact, as the end of this article states, court rulings say prisoners have the right to an alternative method of execution if they oppose the one being imposed upon them.
https://apnews.com/article/death-penalty-executions-firing-squads-idaho-74803c0de8a50a512bdb52dae4974570