South Carolina is preparing for the third execution of September – Waco Tribune -herald

Columbia, SC (AP) – South Carolina is preparing to execute the third prisoner who will be killed in September as the state is passing through prisoners who are running out of complaints while the state could not find deadly injectable drugs.

The performance of Marion Bauman, Jr., is scheduled for 18:00 Friday in prison in Colombia. The 44 -year -old Bauman was convicted of murder at the death of a friend of a friend whose burned -out body was found in the trunk of a car.

Bauman maintains his innocence after his arrest. His attorneys told him that he had been sentenced by the word of several friends and relatives who had received transactions or had been rejected by prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.

Bauman, who had been in death for more than half his life, was offered an agreement to recognize a life sentence, but went to court because he said he was not guilty.

Friday’s implementation will follow the country raising a 13-year pause, caused in part, as civil servants cannot receive deadly injection drugs. The General Assembly has adopted a shield law, and prison staff managed to find a complex pharmacy who wanted to make a pentobarbital if her identity was not public.

Bauman does not ask Governor Henry McMaster for pardon. His lawyer Lindsay Van said Bauman did not want to spend more decades in prison for a crime he had not committed.

“After more than two decades of combating a broken system that failed it at every stage, Marion’s decision is a powerful refusal to legitimize an unjust process that has already stolen so much of his life,” Van says in a statement on Thursday.

No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina, as the death penalty was restored in 1976. He did not give mercy and reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment without probation.

Bauman was sentenced to Dorchester County in 2002 for murder in the murder of 21-year-old Kanda Martin in 2001. A number of friends and family members testified against him as part of the legal basis.

A friend said Bauman was angry because Martin owes him money. A second testimony Bauman believed that Martin was dressed in a recording device to arrest him on charges.

Bauman said he had been selling drugs to Martin, who had been a friend for years and sometimes she would pay with sex, but he denied killing her.

Bauman is black as the other two prisoners, executed after the break. The final appeal against his lawyers said his court lawyer was experiencing too much sympathy for his white victim. The South Carolina Supreme Court called on the argument without merit.

Another concern raised by Bauman’s lawyers is his weight. The anesthesiologist said he was afraid of the secret protocols for lethal injection of South Carolina, who did not take into account that Bowman was referred to as 389 pounds (176 kilograms) in prison records. It can be difficult to get the right IV in a blood vessel and to determine the dose of drugs needed in people with obese.

Prison staff used two doses of pentobarbital given at a distance of 11 minutes in previous execution, according to autopsy records.

Before the 13-year pause, South Carolina was among the busiest countries for execution. The Shield Act, adopted last year, allowed the Pentobarbital supplier used to kill prisoners to stay secret, and prison staff were able to find a complex pharmacy ready to sell the medicine.

The Supreme Court of the State cleared the way to restart executions in July. Freddie Owens was killed through a deadly injection on September 20, and Richard Moore was executed on November 1st.

The court will allow execution every five weeks, while the other three prisoners who have exhausted the appeal are not killed.

South Carolina killed 45 prisoners as the death penalty was restarted in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, it carried out an average of three executions a year. Nine countries killed more prisoners.

But after the involuntary pause of the execution, the population of the death of South Carolina decreased. The state had 63 convicted prisoners in early 2011. It currently has 30. About 20 prisoners have been removed from death and have received various sentences in prison after successful appeals. Others have died for natural reasons.