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, 44, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a friend whose burned body was found in the trunk of a car. Martin was killed in 2001 and Bowman was convicted in Dorchester County in 2002.

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.