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.

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.

Anthony Louis Lopez, 39, had been in jail in North Carolina since early December after Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested ...