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Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year. He choose firing squad.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, has spent more than two decades on the state’s death row after he was convicted of killing a convenience store employee in 1999. Set to be executed on April 29, he's chosen death by firing squad.
If Richard Bernard Moore is executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state 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.
A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be executed in the state has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair.