A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair, which would make him the state’s first execution by firing squad, according to court documents filed on Friday.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, has his execution scheduled for April 29 after spending more than two decades on death row. He is sentenced to death for fatally shooting Spartanburg convenience store clerk James Mahoney during an armed robbery in 1999.
Moore would also be the first person put to death in South Carolina since 2011. His initial execution was scheduled for November 2020, but it was deferred by the state’s Supreme Court after prison officials couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.
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