COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Death row inmate Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old Dorchester County native, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking 2025's first execution in South Carolina.

(UPDATE) TOKYO — The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said ...

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence. Last month, he released a four-page statement asserting he did not kill Martin. Lindsey Vann, Bowman's death penalty ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence ...

Lawyers for an Alabama Death Row inmate set to die next week said there was a “simple, straightforward option” to guarantee the inmate doesn’t have excess pain during his nitrogen execution ...

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The world’s longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than US$1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed ...

Bowman, who has been on death row for more than half his life, was offered a plea deal for a life sentence but went to trial because he said he was not guilty. Friday’s execution will follow the state ...

The ACLU brief in Menzies v. Utah Department of Corrections argues that this more expansive protection means that people sentenced to death should not be forced to identify an alternative when ...

Even at six years old, Drew Barrymore had a lot to say. Director Steven Spielberg opened up about working with Barrymore on the 1982 classic “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” during a conversation ...

Linda Lavin’s cause of death has been revealed ... Levin is survived by her husband, Steve Bakunas, whom she wed in 2005.

Kristen Stewart plays the buoy, with Steven Yeun as the satellite sent into space as humanity’s digital tombstone, its time capsule orbiting the planet, checking for life forms. As their ...