South Carolina Schedules First Execution Since The Allowing Of Firing Squads

The South Carolina Department of Corrections has announced their first execution since announcing plans to transition away from lethal injection and carry out executions by firing squad. Death row inmate Richard Moore, 57, is scheduled to be executed on April 29 and must decide in 14 days whether he wants to be executed by firing squad or electric chair. Richard was convicted in 2001 of armed robbery and the murder of a convenience store clerk in Spartanburg County in 1999. Associate Justice Kaye Hearn wrote a 14 page dispute regarding the execution of Richard. “The death penalty should be reserved… Read Full Article