S Carolina executes Richard Moore despite plea to cut sentence to life

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South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and the his family.

Moore was convicted of killing the Spartanburg convenience store clerk in September 1999 and sentenced to death two years later.

Moore went into the store unarmed, took a gun from the victim when it was pointed at him and fatally shot him in the chest as the victim shot him with a second gun in the arm.

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Published On: 2024-11-02 @ 09:32:54 (7 hours ago)

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