SC Death Row Inmate Chooses to Death by Firing Squad Over Electric Chair
Richard Moore, 57, who has spent two decades on death row, will be the first person to be executed in South Carolina since 2011.
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Richard Moore, 57, who has spent two decades on death row, will be the first person to be executed in South Carolina since 2011.
A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday. Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice…
A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric ...
Richard Bernard Moore is the first prisoner in South Carolina to face the choice of execution methods since the state made electrocution the default and gave inmates the option to face rifles instead.
57-year-old Richard Moore has spent more than 20 years on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of a convenience store clerk.