Condemned prisoner Richard Bernard Moore was forced to choose whether he will be shot or electrocuted to death—methods his lawyers call 'barbaric.'
the firing squad. If he is executed by the method, he will have a target placed over his heart before five correctional officers fire rifle rounds into his chest from 15 feet away.
Condemned prisoners are also technically allowed to elect to die by lethal injection, although officials in South Carolina and some of the 30 other states that allow the execution method have been unable to procure sufficient stores of the drugs used to fatally inject inmates.
Lawyers for Moore and three other condemned South Carolina prisoners are arguing that the electric chair and firing squad are"barbaric."the Death Penalty Information Center, there have been no firing squad executions in the United States since 2010, and all three that have been carried out since 1976 took place in Utah. In addition to South Carolina and Utah, Mississippi and Oklahoma also allow firing squad executions.
South Carolina and seven other states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee—still retain the option of killing condemned prisoners by electrocution, a method that has historicallyOur work is licensed under Creative Commons . Feel free to republish and share widely.
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