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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and the his family. Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m. Moore was convicted of killing the Spartanburg convenience store clerk in September 1999 and sentenced to death two years later.
Moore is the second inmate executed in South Carolina since it resumed executions. Four more are out of appeals and the state appears ready to put them to death in five-week intervals through the spring. There are now 30 people on death row. The governor said he would carefully reviewing everything sent by Moore’s lawyers and, as is customary, would wait until minutes before the execution starts to announce his decision once he hears by phone that all appeals are finished.
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