South Carolina Schedules 1St Execution With Firing Squad As Option
A State Supreme Court official has set April 29 as the execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the murder of confectioner Jamie Stein. Moore could choose between the electric chair and the execution squad, two options for death row inmates after lawmakers amended the state death penalty law last year in a bid to work around a 10-year moratorium on executions....