By james art 
A prisoner from South Carolina was executed on Friday, the third time in four months the state has committed the death penalty as it goes through the lag of prisoners who have exhausted their complaints when the state was unable to receive deadly injection drugs.
Marion Bauman Jr., 44, was executed by a deadly injection at 18:27 for his sentence for murder at the death of his friend, 21-year-old Kanda Martin, whose burned-out body was found in the trunk of a car in 2001.
Bauman maintains his innocence after his arrest. He said at the beginning of his final statement: “I did not kill Martin.”
His lawyers raised questions about his sentence, noting that he was sentenced by the word of several friends and relatives who received transactions with prosecutors in exchange for their testimony.
The South Carolina man sentenced to death, concerned about drugs after issuing during the execution in November
44 -year -old Marion Bauman, Jr., was performed by deadly injection at 6:27 pm. (Department of South Carolina adjustments via AP)
When the curtain to the death camera opened, Bauman briefly looked at his lawyer on the other side of the glass in the witness room before looking back at the ceiling and closing his eyes, opening his eyes once or twice until he looked up.
After Bauman’s lawyer finished reading his final statement and poem, his breathing became severe, and he blown up his lips as he exhaled. After less than a minute, his breathing stopped. Twenty minutes later, a stethoscope doctor listened to his chest and placed his hand on his neck, tapping him until she finished.
Bowman said in his final statement that prisoners of death of death could be regarded as the worst of the worst, but all of them have grown and changed from what they were when they had their moment they have cost everything. “
“I know Candy’s family is experiencing pain. They are justifiably angry,” Bauman said. “If my death brings them some relief and ability to focus on good times and funny stories, then I guess it will serve a goal. I hope they find peace.”
For his last meal, Bauman had fried seafood, including shrimp, fish and oysters, as well as chicken wings and offers, onion rings, banana pudding, German chocolate cake, cranberry juice and pineapple juice.
Bauman was offered an agreement to recognize a life sentence, but instead went to court because he said he was not guilty.
His execution was the third in South Carolina since September, when the state-once one of the busiest executions-completed a 13-year break in the death penalty. The pause was partly caused by a state that has difficulty getting deadly injection drugs after its delivery has leaked due to the fears of pharmaceutical companies that they will have to reveal that they have sold civil servants medicines. The state legislative body then adopted a shield law allowing employees to retain private drug suppliers in injection private ones.
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This photo shows the death of death in Colombia, South Carolina, including the electric chair, to the right and a refractory squad, to the left. (South Carolina adjustment department via AP, file)
In July, the Supreme Court of the State cleared the way to resume executions. Freddie Owens was killed on September 20, and Richard Moore was executed on November 1, with the two men choosing to die through a deadly injection.
This was the first performance in the United States this year after 25 were held in the country last year. The court will allow execution every five weeks, while the other three prisoners who have exhausted the appeal are not killed.
South Carolina fulfilled 46 prisoners as the death penalty was resumed in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state carried out an average of three executions a year. Only nine states have killed more prisoners.
Bauman did not ask Republican governor Henry McMaster for pardon, but the governor’s office still released a letter denying the pardon, noting that he had received informal requests and petitions to spare Bauman’s life.
No governor in the country has never reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment without suspended release in the modern era of death penalty.
Bauman’s lawyer, Lindsay Van, said his client did not want to spend additional decades in prison for a crime he did not commit. He had already spent more than half his life on death.
“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.
Bauman was sentenced to Dorchester County in 2002 in connection with the death of Martin the previous year. Several friends and family members testified against him as part of the legal basis with prosecutors.
A friend said Bauman was upset because Martin owes him money, while a second testified that Bauman believes that Martin was carrying a recording device to arrest him.
The room in which prisoners are played in Columbus, South Carolina. (Department of South Carolina adjustments via AP)
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 said he didn’t kill her.
The final appeal of his current lawyers claims that Bauman’s court lawyer has not been prepared and has too much sympathy for the white victim, not Bauman, who is black. The South Carolina Supreme Court dismissed the argument.
Bauman’s lawyers also expressed fears about his implementation due to his weight. The anesthesiologist stated that he was afraid of the secret protocols for lethal injection of South Carolina, did not take into account that Bauman, referred to as 389 pounds in prison records, was more severe as it could be difficult to insert correct IV in blood vessel and determine the dose of the drugs needed in people with obesity.
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His lawyers were concerned that the drug used to kill Moore in November require two large doses of more than 11 minutes.
Anesthesiologist involved in the examination of Moore’s autopsy records said they had shown fluid in the lungs, which causes lawyers to believe that he “deliberately experienced the feelings of drowning and suffocation in the 23rd minutes that were needed to be to led to his death. “
The Associated Press contributed to this report.