A death row inmate in South Carolina set to be executed later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than the electric chair, according to court documents filed Friday.
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. A circuit judge had set his execution date for 2002, but prosecutorsNow, two decades later, Moore is set to be executed on April 29; he’ll be the first person put to death in South Carolina since 2011. He’sSouth Carolina law states death row inmates must choose their method of death 14 days before their execution date.
Richard Bernard Moore, a death row inmate in South Carolina, has chosen to be executed by firing squad. Moore’s death would be the fourth firing squad execution in the U.S., following Ronnie Lee Gardner’s in 2010. Gardner, who was on death row in Utah for the 1984 murder of an attorney, was strapped to a chair in a room at a prison. According to witnesses, a black hood was placed on Gardner’s head and a small target was placed over his heart before he was executed by a five-person firing squad.that, “In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless.
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