Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is also the first inmate in the US state to select his execution method after a law was enacted last year making electrocution the default, with an option to face three prison workers with rifles instead.

He has spent more than 20 years on death row for the 1999 killing of a convenience store clerk named James Mahoney in Spartanburg.

His execution is scheduled for 29 April. If it goes ahead, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011.

The new law led to a decade-long break which corrections officials blamed on an inability to obtain the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.

Moore's lawyers have petitioned the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court decides if either of the two available methods constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

They say prisons officials are not working hard enough to get the lethal injection drugs, forcing prisoners to choose between two more barbaric methods.

Moore's lawyers are also asking the state Supreme Court for a delay to allow the US Supreme Court to review whether his death sentence is too severe a punishment when compared with similar crimes. The state justices rejected a similar appeal last week.

The state corrections agency completed developing procedures for firing squad executions last month and spent $53,600 (£41,025) to renovate the death chamber in Columbia, which included installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 ft (4.6m) away.

Dying by firing squad would involve three volunteer prison workers using their rifles to shoot the condemned prisoner's heart.

South Carolina is among four states that allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

It is one of eight states that still use the electric chair.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/first-prisoner-to-be-executed-in-south-carolina-in-10-years-picks-firing-squad-over-electric-chair-12590926?fbclid=IwAR2X0UdMoMs3plfmnbBYmTEn-g43qxwAquHCKndmPggBDjJUwbcf63a276g

Very nice,I love the sight of criminal being executed,the thing dey give me joy.

Krss216:
Very nice,I love the sight of criminal being executed,the thing dey give me joy.

Your post is a good Easter lesson. In the era of Jesus Christ, you would have been in the group throwing stones at Christ and commending him.

2000 years later, people haven't changed.

Nawa ooo C as him bone him face self

When you feed an abused animal meat daily he understands he no longer needs vegetables, this inmate is a product of his society, the blacks have been degraded to a point that if you can't be evil to one another you will most likely die, life no longer has a meaning as the whites make sure you can't get a reasonable job or walk the streets free ,you are on a short leash

Or11:


Your post is a good Easter lesson. In the era of Jesus Christ, you would have been in the group throwing stones at Christ and commending him.

2000 years later, people haven't changed.

Abeg wetin concern me with Jesus Christ?

godofuck231:
When you feed an abused animal meat daily he understands he no longer needs vegetables, this inmate is a product of his society, the blacks have been degraded to a point that if you can't be evil to one another you will most likely die, life no longer has a meaning as the whites make sure you can't get a reasonable job or walk the streets free ,you are on a short leash

if you are not cool with how the white man runs his society please come back to Africa.
Don't stay there and continue to constitute nuisance.

This thing is 50/50 no cheating.. U kill and must be killed in return. If this keeps happening maybe those with the motive to kill and get life in prisonment in return would have a change of heart. Though shall not kill

Fuckyoumod:
if you are not cool with how the white man runs his society please come back to Africa.
Don't stay there and continue to constitute nuisance.

no worry you go understand watin slavery be one day

All die na die na, whether through electrocution or lethal injection or hanging or firing squad.


Oyinbos always making mountains out of molehills.

Nigerian governors do your jobs, Boko Haram, Iswap and bandits have been declared terrorists, that means they can be killed, our law stipulates death penalty for murder, terrorism is worse than murder, because it's threatens the national existence. You people swore an allegiance to the people, you swore an oath of office, but you only concentrate on stealing more funds, instead of pushing strong bills in your local assemblies, do your state's criminal laws stipulate death sentence for bandits/terrorists, and kidnappers. so you send strong deterrence.