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.

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South Carolina this year. Bowman, a native of

After two decades on death row, Bowman will on Friday become South Carolina’s 46th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. He will be executed at Broad River Correctional Institution at 6pm on Friday with a single dose of lethal drug Pentobarbital.