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-Lurid Crime Tales-
South Carolina death row inmate who killed a store clerk in 1999 elects to be executed by three-person firing squad rather than the electric chair
2022-04-16
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year

  • The law made electrocution the default and gave inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead

  • Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg

  • If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011 and fourth nationwide to die by firing squad in over 50 years

  • Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976

  • The new law was prompted by the decade-long break in executions, which officials attribute to an inability to procure drugs needed for lethal injections
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  Use pellet guns.
Posted by: Woodrow   2022-04-16 22:40  

#9  Old age and bad eyed. "you" and "minutes". Damn but I'm old.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2022-04-16 20:02  

#8  /\ B; Yoiu beat me by a few oinutes. I was thinking 40 to 50 gallery rounds.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2022-04-16 20:01  

#7  Death by .22 shorts.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-04-16 19:43  

#6  Shoot him in the kneecap first.
Posted by: Slappy   2022-04-16 19:23  

#5  
It is not Justice if the sentence is carried out 21 later.

Using the SC Prison cost to house, Guard, treat and feed an inmate of $12,336 to $21,000 per year (1991 to 2021). His 21 years in jail has cost the SC taxpayers close to $700,000.00

The bullets will be under $50.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-04-16 18:25  

#4  The venue
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-04-16 16:57  

#3  He has been convicted and sentenced! Say FU and inject him. He should have NO say in his end.
Posted by: Papa Cooky    2022-04-16 16:33  

#2  What if all three miss? Does he get to go Scott-free?
Posted by: jpal   2022-04-16 14:08  

#1  three prison workers with rifles



"Don't worry, Ricky. I'll make it quick."

"Thanks, Bob... sniff."

"Yeah, Rick. You've been no trouble. I got you."

"FIRE!"

First gets him in the left testicle. Second blows his arm away at the elbow. Third takes a full agonizing three seconds to aim.

"Hold that pose now, Rick. It's almost over!"

Sends .30 cal round nose tumbling across his innards.

"Aaaaaaaaa....!"
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-04-16 12:33  

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