South Carolina, death row

South Carolina death row prisoners request pause in executions over winter holidays
Attorneys for the inmates are reportedly to ask the state Supreme Court to halt executions and issue any more death warrants after New Year’s Day
South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.
Death row inmate Richard Moore executed by lethal injection in South Carolina
South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 1. He was convicted of the 1999 murder of store clerk James Mahoney.
Richard Moore executed in South Carolina, second inmate this year
South Carolina has executed Richard Moore, the second death row inmate to die at the hands of the state this year.
South Carolina does not set a date for the next execution after requests for a holiday pause
South Carolina's Supreme Court has not set a date for the state's next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of appeals asked them to postpone deaths until after Christmas and New Year's. The justices typically issue notices on Fridays because it gives the maximum amount of time of 28 days to prepare for the execution which by law is to be carried out on the “fourth Friday after the receipt of such notice.
SC does not set a date for the next execution after requests for a holiday pause
South Carolina's Supreme Court has not set a date for the state's next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of appeals asked them to postpone deaths until after Christmas and New Year's.
S.C. court holds off setting date for state’s next execution
Lawyers for four S.C. inmates asked justices to postpone executions until after Christmas and New Year’s. The top court may be doing that.
Appeals Court weighing whether SC death row inmate can give interview
Three federal appeals judges will decide whether a civil rights group can publish interviews conducted with two South ...
'Not the worst of the worst': Richard Moore set for execution in South Carolina on Friday
Moore's attorney describes a formerly addicted man who is now a devout Christian, a good father and a changed man. Only the ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg ...
South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite pleas from trial judge, jurors and former corrections department director
Moore is believed to be the only person in the history of South Carolina’s death penalty to be executed in connection with an ...
USA Today12d
South Carolina puts Richard Moore to death; protesters call for end to executions
on death row for murder, was executed Friday evening. Moore, 59, was convicted in 2001 of murdering James Mahoney, a ...
South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life
South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life ...
The Associated Press on MSN13d
Justices refuse to stop execution of South Carolina inmate who says the jury was racially biased
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a ...
The Independent13d
South Carolina death row inmate in last-ditch fight for his life as execution looms today
Moore then went behind the counter and stole about $1,400. No one else on South Carolina’s death row started their crime unarmed and with no intention to kill, Moore’s current attorneys say.