South Carolina prison officials told death row inmate Richard Moore on Tuesday that he can choose between a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection for his Nov. 1 execution.
State law gives Moore until Oct. 18 to decide or by default he will be electrocuted. His execution would mark the second in South Carolina after a 13-year pause due to the state not being able to obtain a drug needed for lethal injection.
Moore, 59, is facing the death penalty for the September 1999 shooting of store clerk James Mahoney. Moore went into the Spartanburg County store unarmed to rob it and the two ended up in a shootout after Moore was able to take one of Mahoney’s guns. Moore was wounded, while Mahoney died from a bullet to the chest.
Holy cow, I thought the electric chair was removed in all states. Gruesome
The electric chair built in 1912 - Its fine tho, they tested it in Sept!
Smdh. Absolutely barbaric.
1912 was a great year. People act like we have learned and grown a lot since then. I routinely take a boat from New York to England.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_in_science
Last electrocution was in 2020. Yeesh.