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South Carolina is ready to execute Marion Bauman Jr. on Friday night at the first US’s first implementation in 2025. With the kind assistance of South Carolina Department
January 31 (Upi) – Marion Bauman, Jr. of South Carolina, is intended to be the first person executed in the United States in 2025 on Friday after the US Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of the fourth round refused to hear his case.
Bauman could ask South Carolina’s governor for pardon, but refused by clearing the way for his execution.
Bauman was 20 years old during the shooting of Kanda Martin at the age of 21 and was sentenced to death in 2002. He was accused of putting her body in the trunk of a car and setting him on fire after the fire.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has the power to travel with Bauman’s death sentence, but no South Carolina governor has passed the death sentence in prison as the state restarted his death penalty in 1976.
Bauman’s lawyers said racial biases were involved in his case. Bauman was black and Martin was white. He asked higher courts to pause his execution so that the probe could be considered for his prosecutor’s office.
“All confidence in the sentence and death sentence of Marion Bauman, Jr., is undermined by his court lawyer, who filters his professional judgment by presumption of racial bias by Bowman’s jurors, just to introduce uneven and prejudiced racial stereotypes and The victim in the case, “Bauman’s lawyers said in court documents, according to the state.
Bauman maintained his innocence all the time, saying that he would sell Martin drugs and she was his girlfriend. He accused her death of a cousin who testified against him.
“I’m sorry for Candy and her family, but I didn’t,” Bowman said in a statement published online. Her family has suffered a loss that cannot be canceled. … I know this will not bring them satisfaction, but this is my truth. “
