Captions will look like this

Moore's attorney said that the prison is not doing enough to get the drugs and is forcing prisoners to choose between the electric chair or the firing squad.

Yahoo NewsYahoo News

A death row 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266

Richard Bernard Moore has spent more than two decades on the state's death row after he was convicted of killing a convenience store employee. Prosecutors said at the time that they expected years of appeals after the judge set his execution date.

Moore is scheduled to be executed on April 29th, the first person to be put to death in South Carolina since 2011. What led to his choice of death by firing squad?

Why can S.C. inmates decide how they die?

14 days before their execution date, death row inmates in South Carolina must choose their method of death. If an prisoner refuses to make a choice, death by electric chair is the default method.

Moore is one of 35 men on the state's death row and will be executed. On Friday, he wrote in a statement that he opposed death by electrocution.

Richard Moore
Richard Bernard Moore, a death row inmate in South Carolina, has chosen to be executed by firing squad. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)

Moore wrote that he will choose firing squad because the department says he must choose between the two.

Why not use a lethal injection?

Thirty states and the federal government use lethal injection as their primary method of execution, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.

The Supreme Court confirmed in 1976 that capital punishment is legal under certain circumstances, and 163 inmates have been executed since then.

Pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride are some of the drugs included in a lethal injection. The inmates are put to sleep by pentobarbital, and pancuronium bromides are used to paralyze them.

Eight states use a single drug to execute inmates. In South Carolina, lethal injection uses three drugs. The state hasn't been able to get the drugs it needs for years because manufacturers and pharmacies have refused to help, according to the director of the Department of Correction.

Death by firing squad.

Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah allow death by firing squad. The state's corrections agency said last month that it had finished developing the proper protocols for executions using that method, in which an inmate is hooded and strapped to a metal chair with restrains before three volunteer prison workers fire their rifles at the inmate's heart.

Moore would be the fourth firing-squad execution in the US. He was strapped to a chair in a room in a prison and was on death row in Utah. According to witnesses, a black hood was placed on his head and a small target was placed over his heart before he was executed.

In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless.

The 110-year-old electric chair, with its wooden head rest and orange restraints, in a plain brick room that also contains a small table and a trash can lined with plastic.
This March 2019 photo shows the 110-year-old electric chair that South Carolina uses for executions. (Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)

The DPIC estimates that from 1890 to 2010 3% of executions have gone awry. Lethal injection has resulted in at least 75 bungled executions. There have been hundreds of failed executions, but no firing squad executions.

John Grant vomited and convulsed as he was executed in Oklahoma in October of 2021. The state of Alabama tried to execute a man in 2018, but couldn't find a suitable vein to inject the drugs into his body. He died of cancer four years after he had puncture marks in his bladder, groin, and femoral arteries.

A way to die.

Moore's attorneys are appealing his death in both state and federal courts.

The electric chair and the firing squad are archaic and barbaric methods of execution, according to court papers filed this week.

She said that the new state law makes South Carolina the only state that still uses the firing squad.

Moore's attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to delay his execution while another court decides if the death penalty is constitutional. Attorneys say that the officials have not shown that they can't get the drugs needed for lethal injection.

  • When it comes to her career, Nene Leakes is 888-609- 888-609- 888-609-

  • Carnival said in a statement that the ship's crew participated in search and rescue efforts until the ship was released by the US Coast Guard.

  • Many people might be surprised by the prices of VoIP phones.

  • The 20-year-old singer took the stage in Indio, California on Saturday as the youngest headliners in the music festival's history.

  • I think every life should be honored.

  • Parents are taking their children's school to court for allegedly encouraging the children to change their names without their knowledge.

  • Carbon capture solutions are needed to achieve full decarbonization in emission reduction scenarios.

  • In an interview with CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was shocked by a video of a mother identifying her son's body.

  • The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast didn't get off to the best start when new cast member, Kandi Burruss joined the show.

  • According to Oxford Economics, the US could do it again with Russia.

  • You can battle your way through a visually-stunning mythicalRPG realm with hundreds ofchampions from 14factions.

  • According to a new report, a professor at a university in Ohio was punished for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns.

  • The 30-year-old real estate saleswoman has yet to find a hot shower because the lights stay on all night. After spending 10 days isolated at home following a positive test, Beibei and her husband were ordered to go to the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai. The convention center has 50,000 beds and is one of more than 100 facilities set up in Shanghai for people who test positive but have no symptoms.

  • Stung by the strength of the Ukrainian resistance, Russia is looking to launch a new offensive that will focus on the Donbas region.

  • The five episode-run of Private Eye was solid, but the timing of the show was bad.

  • You might think that big-box corporate stores have the same pricing as other stores. Can there really be a difference between Target and Walmart?

  • In El Paso Crime of the Week, a store theft turns into a violent robbery.

  • The grand jury with the power to indict Trump reaches its final days this month, as the Manhattan district attorney's historic investigation into him appears to spiral.

  • Ad12Up
    • Why this Ad?
    • Go ad-free*

    A man builds a trap to catch a thief.

  • A man is dead and three other people are injured after a shooting in Sacramento County, according to authorities. The three victims were found near the 7200 block of Franklin Boulevard by the sheriff's office. The caller told the authorities that someone was lying in the parking lot.

  • The Memphis Police Department is looking for three women who went to a restaurant.

  • The ideal world of the NRA.

  • The ones captured on camera are so bad, they are almost unbelievable.

  • A man was robbed at gun point in the driveway of his Palo Alto home.

  • Thieves wearing government uniforms worked from 7am to take apart the iron bridge in Bihar, India.

  • Someone who woke up to the sounds of power tools helped Santa Monica police catch a group of people who were suspected of stealing a catalytic converter.