Marion Bowman Jr., who was found guilty of fatally shooting and setting a 21-year-old woman on fire in 2001, is set to become the first person executed in the U.S. in the new year on Friday — with his execution taking place in South Carolina.
SCOTUS Rejects Trump Administration Bid To Halt $2B In Foreign Aid Payments
On Wednesday, a slim majority of the Supreme Court overturned an injunction that had been preventing the Trump administration from paying nearly $2 billion in “past-due foreign aid funds.”