Updated on this story 4-11-22 April and May Execution Scheduled

we have been informed another death row is scheduled as of April 8th 2022

April 29th 2022 in South Carolina Richard Moore is scheduled to be executed by Electric chair or by electrocution

Richard Moore we learned was sentence to death in a murder case

He was a convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a robbery.

Update 04/11/22 19:00:00 Pm
Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution

A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment.

Richard Bernard Moore is set to die April 29 unless a court steps in. He has until next Friday to choose between the South Carolina's electric chair, which has been used twice in the past 30 years, or being shot by three volunteers who are prison workers in rules the state finalized last month.

State law also allows lethal injection, but South Carolina has not been able to obtain the drugs to kill an inmate in the past several years, prompting the General Assembly in 2021 to pass a law including the firing squad so executions could being again. South Carolina has not put an inmate to death in nearly 11 years.

Moore's lawyers said judges need to review South Carolina's new firing squad rules to see if they violate a ban on cruel and unusual punishment and also examine the electric chair with the way executions have changed in the past several decades. A similar lawsuit by two other inmates is pending.

“The electric chair and the firing squad are antiquated, barbaric methods of execution that virtually all American jurisdictions have left behind,” Moore's lawyer Lindsey Vann wrote in court papers filed Friday.

Vann also is asking the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so the U.S. Supreme Court can review whether Moore's death sentence was a disproportionate punishment compared to similar crimes. The state justices denied a similar appeal earlier this week.

Moore, 57, has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted in 2001 of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.

Moore's supporters said his crime did not rise to the level of a death penalty offense because he did not bring a gun into the store and did not intend to kill anyone until the store clerk pulled a gun on him.

Moore planned to rob the store for money to support his cocaine habit and Mahoney pulled a gun which Moore was able to wrestle away, investigators said.

Mahoney pulled a second gun and the men fired at each other. Mahoney shot Moore in the arm, and Moore shot Mahoney in the chest. Prosecutors said Moore left a trail of blood through the store as he looked for cash, stepping twice over Mahoney.

The law passed last year makes the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available.

Moore's lawyers also are arguing the state has not proven it is trying to find lethal injection drugs, instead forcing death row inmates to pick between two more barbaric methods.

The state finished a $53,600 overhaul of its death chamber last month to add a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away where three volunteers will each have live ammunition and fire at the condemned inmate, the Corrections Department said in a statement.

Bullet proof glass has been installed between witnesses and the chair where the prisoner will be restrained as a worker places a hood over his head and a small target over his heart, prison officials said.

Moore is one of 35 men on South Carolina’s death row. The state scheduled an execution date for Moore in 2020, but that was delayed when prison officials could not obtain lethal injection drugs.

South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011, when Jeffrey Motts, on death row for strangling a cellmate while serving a life sentence for another murder, abandoned his appeals and opted for the death chamber.

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April Execution

21 TN Oscar Franklin Smith
convicted of the 1989 murders of his estranged wife Judy Robird Smith and her sons from another marriage Chad Burnett, 16, and Jason Burnett, 13

21 TX Carl Wayne Buntion
CONVICTED OF murder of Houston police officer James Irby in 1990.

27 TX Melissa Lucio
What was Melissa Lucio convicted of?
Lucio was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah in 2008

Updated One was Subject to Change notice

21 April of 2022 in OH John Drummond — REPRIEVED

John Drummond Reprieve has been confirmed he will not be executed at this time but he is rescheduled on a new date of April 16th 2025

May 3rd 2022 in MO Carman Deck

On November 7, 2008, Carman L. Deck was sentenced for a third time to death for the 1996 fatal shootings of an elderly couple from De Soto. Two previous death sentences for Deck, now 43, had been overturned on appeal. The death sentence was imposed today at Hillsboro by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Gary Kramer, who accepted the recommendation of a jury that heard the arguments for the death penalty in September.

Clarence Dixon May 11 for Murder of a 21 college student in Arizona back in 1978 of Deana Bowdoin inside her apartment with a with a belt around her neck. he was convicted in 2008 and was sentenced to Death penelty.

18 of May 2022 in Ohio James Hanna — REPRIEVED

James Hanna Execution Date was changed to May 14th 2025

James Hanna 65, was set to die by lethal injection Dec. 11 for killing his cellmate Peter Copas, 43, by driving a sharpened paintbrush through his eye and bludgeoning him with a sock containing a padlock in 1997.

Updated on this story 4-11-22 April and May Execution Scheduled

Updated on this story 4-11-22 April and May Execution Scheduled

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