The state of South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after prison officials indicated they are ready to conduct executions by firing squad. Richard Bernard Moore is scheduled to die
The South Carolina Supreme Court has allowed the execution of a man on death for more than two decades to proceed after the corrections department said last month it had finished renovating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.
Barring a successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Bernard Moore will be put to death April 29 for the 1999 murder of a convenience store worker.
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