A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair, which would make him the state’s first execution by firing squad, according to court documents filed on Friday.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, has his execution scheduled for April 29 after spending more than two decades on death row. He is sentenced to death for fatally shooting Spartanburg convenience store clerk James Mahoney during an armed robbery in 1999.
