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South Carolina death row inmate who killed a store clerk in 1999 elects to be executed by three-person firing squad rather than the electric chair
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year
- The law made electrocution the default and gave inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead
- Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg
- If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011 and fourth nationwide to die by firing squad in over 50 years
- Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976
- The new law was prompted by the decade-long break in executions, which officials attribute to an inability to procure drugs needed for lethal injections
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-16 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]