South Carolina death row inmate to choose firing squad, electric chair or lethal injection for execution

A South Carolina decease enactment inmate is being required to take betwixt a firing squad, lethal injection and the electrical seat for his Nov. 1 execution.

Richard Moore, 59, was convicted of the execution of James Mahoney, a convenience store worker, successful Spartanburg, South Carolina, successful September 1999. 

In 2001, Moore was recovered blameworthy of murder, aggravated battle with the intent to kill, equipped robbery, and a usurpation involving a handgun.

The 59-year-old present has until Oct. 18 to determine the mode to extremity his life. If helium does not choose, helium volition beryllium electrocuted.

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South Carolina’s precocious tribunal connected Friday acceptable a day of Nov. 1 to enactment to decease Richard Moore who killed a store clerk successful 1999. (Justice 360 via AP)

According to a certified missive sent to Moore, prison officials said that the state's electrical chair, which was built successful 1912, was tested Sept. 3, and was recovered successful moving order.

South Carolina formerly utilized a premix of 3 drugs but present volition usage 1 drug, the sedative pentobarbital, for lethal injections.

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The firing squad method has been allowed successful South Carolina, since 2021. Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho are the lone different states that let the firing squad method.

South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said that 3 volunteers person the grooming and ammunition needed if Moore chooses this route. The 3 volunteers were trained to occurrence astatine a people placed successful the bosom from 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.

South Carolina's decease enclosure successful Columbia, SC. (South Carolina's Department of Corrections)

South Carolina has enactment 44 inmates to decease since the decease punishment was restarted successful the U.S. successful 1976. In the aboriginal 2000s, it was carrying retired an mean of 3 executions a year.

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Moore plans to inquire Republican Gov. Henry McMaster for mercy and to trim his condemnation to beingness without parole. No South Carolina politician has ever granted clemency.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.