The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

In the statement detailing his final words, Bowman said he did not kill 21-year-old Kandee Martin. Martin was killed in 2001 and Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002.