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.

Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin five days before her son's second birthday.

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison for a murder he has always insisted he did not commit.

Friday, 44-year-old Marion Bowman Jr. is set to die by lethal injection after he was convicted of killing 21-year-old Kandee Martin in 2001. However, Bowman has

One person was taken to a South Carolina hospital and another was detained following a Monday morning shooting, according to the Columbia Police Department. At about 10 a.m., officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 5700 block of Farrow Road, police said. That’s in a part of Richland County between S.C. 277 and U.S. 21/North Main Street.

Our next disturbance arrives Friday, bringing with it a round of rain. A warm front will lift through Friday morning, helping high temperatures reach the mid and upper-70s! Later in the day, rain showers return along the leading edge of a cold front.

South Carolina has dozens of hidden gems if you want a local vacation, including a treehouse in Greenville, a former church in Columbia and a bus in Charleston.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina State Senator Margie Bright Matthews delivered the Democratic response Wednesday to Gov. Henry McMaster's State of the Address . McMaster spent the speech talking up the state's economy and discussing and outlining his plans for education and energy policy.

According to the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, nearly 25,000 farms and 4.8 million acres of farmland in the state are driven by agriculture.

With state utilities saying they need to build more power plants, some of South Carolina’s largest energy users are offering another option that they say could decrease the urgency to establish new sources of electricity.

The university and its foundation have continued to acquire Columbia properties east of the historic Horseshoe.