A South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair.
. The attorneys argue prisons officials aren’t trying hard enough to get the lethal injection drugs, instead forcing prisoners to choose between two more barbaric methods.His lawyers are also asking the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so the U.S. Supreme Court can review whether his death sentence was a disproportionate punishment compared with similar crimes. The state justices denied a similar appeal last week.
Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976, according to the nonprofit. Moore’s would mark the first sinceSouth Carolina's corrections agency said last month that it finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet away.
During Moore’s 2001 trial, prosecutors said Moore entered the store looking for money to support his cocaine habit and got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him.
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South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chairA South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair
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South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chairA South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair
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