Sentenced to Death in the US, Forced To Choose the Method of Execution
He Was Given Two Choices
Richard Moore, 57, will be executed on April 19. The man received the death penalty after killing a Spartanburg convenience store clerk during a botched robbery in 1999.
Moore was forced to choose between the two execution methods available to him after the Supreme Court set his execution date last month: being shot by firing squad or dying by electrocution in the electric chair.
In a written statement Friday, Moore conveyed that both options are unconstitutional but that he was forced to choose by April 15.
In more than a decade, the first death row inmate executed in the United States state of South Carolina chose to be completed by firing squad.
South Carolina has not been executed in nearly 11 years because authorities have been unable to obtain the lethal injections required for the procedure.
South Carolina passed legislation allowing death row inmates to be killed by electrocution on the electric chair or firing squad to resume executions.
Prisoners are now given the option of choosing between the two options.
Moore will be the first inmate in South Carolina to face a firing squad and only the fourth inmate killed in this manner in the United States since 1973.
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