The South Carolina Supreme Court on April 20 issued a temporary stay preventing the state from carrying out what would have been its first-ever execution by firing squad. Richard Bernard Moore, 57, was scheduled to be executed on April 29. He would have been only the fourth prisoner in the United States to die by that method since 1976. Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of killing Spartanburg convenience store clerk James Mahoney during an armed robbery in 1999, as well as assault with intent to kill and a firearms violation. Moore was initially set to be executed in November 2020, but that was deferred by the state Supreme Court after prison officials said they could not obtain lethal injection drugs. ...
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State Supreme Court Halts South Carolina Death Row Inmate’s Planned Execution by Firing Squad
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State Supreme Court Halts South Carolina Death Row Inmate’s Planned Execution by Firing Squad
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