South Carolina death row inmate selects method of execution

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has selected lethal injection as his method of execution.
Moore made the choice in an affidavit signed Friday and submitted to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Moore was sentenced to death for shooting and killing James Mahoney, a store clerk, in Spartanburg County in 1999.
South Carolina law requires condemned inmates to select between death by lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair.
If his sentence is carried out, he will be the second person in the state executed since 2011, when executions were halted after the state ran out of the drugs necessary to perform lethal injections.
In 2022, Moore opted for the firing squad over electrocution, kicking off a series of legal challenges and changes to state law that ultimately saw the reintroduction of the lethal injection as an option for executions.
Freddie Owens, the first man to be executed in South Carolina in 13 years, opted for lethal injection. He was executed last month.
Prosecutors say that the night of Sept. 16, 1999, Moore shot and killed Mahoney while trying to rob Nikki’s Speedy Mart for money to buy crack. During the robbery, Mahoney drew a gun on Moore, who then disarmed him. A witness, seated at a video poker machine in the back of the store, said that Moore turned and shot at him before Mahoney drew a second gun and he and Moore opened fired at each other.
Moore was struck in the arm while Mahoney was fatally shot in the chest. In court filings, Moore said that an altercation over change led to Mahoney pulling a gun on him.
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