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South Carolina executes Richard Moore for 1999 killing despite pleas from former jurors

Three jurors, Moore’s trial judge, and a former state prison director called for the 59-year-old to get clemency

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2024

South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors

‘To my children and granddaughters, I love you and am so proud of you,’ Moore, 59, said in his last words

The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2024

South Carolina death row inmate in last-ditch fight for his life as execution looms today

South Carolina is scheduled to kill death row inmate Richard Moore by lethal injection on Friday

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024

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Justices refuse to stop execution of South Carolina inmate who says the jury was racially biased

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2024

Jurors, judge and former prison director all ask for mercy for condemned South Carolina inmate

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has more than 20 people asking the governor to spare his life in a clemency petition filed just two days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1999 killing of a store clerk

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024

‘Don’t take his life’: South Carolina man faces execution despite state justice calling his sentence invalid

Children of Richard Moore, 59, plead for his clemency as experts insist he should be ineligible for capital punishment

The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2024

Judge rules only the governor can grant clemency to a South Carolina death row inmate

A federal judge has rejected the request of a South Carolina man scheduled for execution next week to remove the governor's power to grant clemency and allow someone else to consider his case

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

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South Carolina Inmate Chooses Lethal Injection For Execution

South Carolina inmate Richard Moore chooses lethal injection for his execution and appeals to halt it.

Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection

A condemned South Carolina inmate has chosen to be executed by lethal injection for killing a store clerk in 1999

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2024

The son of a South Carolina inmate urges the governor to save his father from execution

The son of a South Carolina inmate is asking the governor to save his father from execution

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2024

Federal judge is skeptical about taking away South Carolina governor's clemency power

A federal judge appears unlikely to grant the request of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed on Nov. 1 to take away the power of granting him clemency from the governor

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2024

Condemned inmate Richard Moore wants someone other than South Carolina's governor to decide clemency

A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in just over three weeks is asking a federal judge to take away the power of granting clemency from the governor and place it with a parole board

The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2024

Death row inmate ordered to choose between three options for how he wants to die

Richard Moore is the only man on the death row to have been convicted by a jury that did not have any African Americans

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2024

Ex-Prison Boss Begs South Carolina Not to Execute Death Row Inmate: He's a Changed Man

After decades on death row, Richard Moore faces a choice between electrocution or a firing squad, but the former prison chief says he doesn't deserve to die.

Latin Times · Oct 4, 2024

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South Carolina To Resume Executions After 13-Year Pause

South Carolina prepares to execute Richard Moore for 1999 murder, amidst resumption of capital punishment and legal challenges.

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2024

South Carolina sets Nov. 1 execution as state ramps up use of death chamber

South Carolina has set a date of Nov. 1 date for its next execution as the state ramps up use of the death penalty after a 13-year pause

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

Foxes ‘tortured and set on fire with lighter fluid’ by group of men in London

The ‘appalling, cruel incidents’ were reported to police by an animal rescue group on Monday after a fox had been set on fire in Beckton

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

Commentary: With firing squad, South Carolina is trying to return to its barbaric past

South Carolina officials want to shoot Richard Moore to death because in 1999 the now 57-year-old shot and killed Nikki Speedy Mart clerk James Mahoney. They settled on that method after forcing Moore to decide between a firing squad or the state’s 110-year-old electric chair. In short, South Carolina wants…

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The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2022

EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works

It’s unknown how long a stay will hold off the execution of South Carolina’s first-ever inmate to be put to death by a firing squad as his attorneys pursue legal challenges

The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2022

Court halts South Carolina plan for firing squad execution

The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay halting the state from carrying out plans for its first-ever firing squad execution

Reason · Apr 18, 2022

Death by Firing Squad Returns to South Carolina

Due to a lack of access to lethal injection drugs, Richard Moore had to choose between the electric chair and getting shot through the heart.

ABC News · Apr 16, 2022

US death row inmate Richard Moore picks firing squad over electric chair

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade elects to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair.

The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2022

South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution

A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution

Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2022

SC man on death row has execution date, now must pick method: firing squad or electric chair

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday issued an execution notice for Richard Moore that set his execution date for four weeks from April 7.

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