Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is scheduled to be killed April 29 after a fatal shooting at a Spartanburg grocery store during a failed robbery in 1999. Moore was to be assassinated by the state in 2020, but execution was postponed because the correctional unit could not procure drugs to use for a lethal injection. After the state Supreme Court issued its execution order on Thursday, it is now likely to be the first inmate under a new state law that allows inmates to choose an executive quote or lethal injections instead of the electric chair. Last month, the state announced it had built a newly renovated death chamber that includes a metal chair with accessories that face a wall with an opening. Three volunteer correctional workers fired rifles at the detainee’s heart, according to the Associated Press. Richard Bernard Moore is scheduled to be the first South Carolina prisoner to be executed by selecting the executive squad. Moore was arrested for trying to rob Nikki’s Speedy Mart on September 16, 1999. He ended up fighting with employee James Mahoney, who was fatally shot. Some, including a dissenting Supreme Court justice, have questioned whether the death penalty was appropriate for the crime. “The death penalty should be reserved for those who commit the most heinous crimes in our society, and I do not believe Moore’s crimes reach that level,” Judge Kaye Hearn wrote in a dispute – her first in a death sentence in 13. years, according to the State. Moore, who is black, was convicted by a jury that had 11 white members and one Hispanic member, Hearn wrote, according to the newspaper. Richard Bernard Moore was due to be killed by the state in 2020, but the correctional unit could not obtain drugs for the lethal injection. Getty Images With Post cables
