South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods

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South Carolina ****** row inmate told to choose between ********** methods

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina prison officials told ****** row inmate Richard Moore on Tuesday that he can choose between a ******* squad, the electric chair and lethal injection for his 

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State law gives Moore until Oct. 18 to decide or by default he will be electrocuted. His ********** would mark the 

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 after a 13-year pause due to the state not being able to obtain a ***** needed for lethal injection.

Moore, 59, is facing the ****** penalty for the September 1999 ********* 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 ***** from a bullet to the chest.

He is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the **********. Moore, who is ******, is the only man on South Carolina’s ****** row to have been convicted by a jury that did not have any ******** Americans, his lawyers said. If he is *********, he would also be the first person put to ****** in the state in modern times who was unarmed initially and then defended themselves when threatened with a *******, they said.

South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said the state’s electric chair was tested last month, its ******* squad has the ammunition and training and the 

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 was tested and found pure by technicians at the state ****** lab, according to a certified letter sent to Moore.

Freddie Owens was put to ****** by lethal injection in South Carolina on Sept. 20 after a shield law passed last year allowed the state to obtain a ***** needed for lethal injection. Before the privacy measure was put in place, companies refused to sell the *****.

In the lead up to his **********, Owens asked the state Supreme Court to release more information about the pentobarbital to be used to ***** him. The justices ruled Stirling had released enough when he told Owens, just as he did Moore in Tuesday’s letter, that the ***** was pure, stable and potent enough to carry out the **********.

Prison officials also told Moore that the state’s 

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, built in 1912, was tested Sept. 3 and found to be working properly. They did not provide details about those tests.

The 

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, allowed by a 2021 law, has the guns, ammunition and training it needs, Stirling wrote. Three volunteers have been trained to ***** at a target placed on the heart from 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.

Moore plans to ask Gov. Henry McMaster, a ***********, for mercy and to reduce his sentence to life without parole. No South Carolina governor has ever 

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 in the modern era of the ****** penalty.

Moore has no violations on his prison record and offered to work to help rehabilitate other prisoners as long as he is behind bars.

South Carolina has put 44 inmates to ****** since the ****** penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states have put more inmates to ******.

But since the unintentional ********** pause, South Carolina’s ****** row population has dwindled. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 31. About 20 inmates have been 

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 and received different prison sentences after successful appeals. Others have ***** of natural causes.

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