South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods
South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods
South Carolina prison officials have told death row inmate Richard Moore that a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection will all be available for him to choose for his Nov. 1 execution.
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.
I know a guy who works for a pharmaceutical company that refused to supply a drug that is sometimes used in executions (not a poison, but a fast-acting anesthetic). After US prisons tried to order the drug through straw men and deliberately misrepresenting its use, the company stopped selling it to the US altogether. This is presumably a loss for US doctors, as this drug is typically used in trauma surgery. All the more reason to finally abolish the death penalty - it is barbaric anyway.
50The amount of money and hoops these assholes that have a homicide fantasy go through to get the proper drug is kinda wild. And as per usual John Oliver covered it well in his Executions video.
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How in the actual fuck is this Person on death row, while wastes of DNA like Kyle Rittenhouse walk free?
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So, the government murdering people by law is still a thing in the USA?
22In 27 of the 50 states, it’s still legal. Of those 27, 6 have put all executions on hold indefinitely.
25Meanwhile South Carolina has been busy putting in a fuckin express lane
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Huge opioid overdose, while in a flaming propane truck, hurtling off a huge cliff, into a minefield
12If his crime was that bad, why wait 25 years to execute him? The guy also didn't go into the store armed and looking to kill someone, he just wanted money for drugs, but then had a gun pulled on him and then exchanged shots with the shop keeper who pulled yet another firearm out. If this had been Zimmerman or Rittenhouse they might have called it "self defense". The guy seems more than willing to accept responsibility for his actions and remain in prison for the rest of his natural life. My hot take is to let him do as he suggested, remain in prison and help to rehabilitate those he can, kinda like the idea of what prison was supposed to do. If they need to kill inmates, why not save it for the people that have no remorse for what they have done?
11because there are people out there so desperate to kill someone legally they'll do anything include wait 25 years to do it
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"I choose death by natural causes."
11Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
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Firing squad any day.
7My luck, I would get the local sheriff's Stormtrooper squad.
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Holy cow, I thought the electric chair was removed in all states. Gruesome
6The electric chair built in 1912 - Its fine tho, they tested it in Sept!
Smdh. Absolutely barbaric.
8Last electrocution was in 2020. Yeesh.
61912 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.
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why not go for the hattrick? Frying on the Stool while being under lethal injection and as the final nail to the coffin a bullet in every chamber of the firing squad. They want the most gruesome way to see that guy go, no?
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