Page 4 of 5 FirstFirst ... 2345 LastLast
Results 31 to 40 of 47

Thread: Richard Bernard Moore - South Carolina Death Row

  1. #31
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Neil's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2020
    Posts
    1,248
    Virginia didn’t have a secrecy law until Mcaullife signed it in 2016. Of course that was repealed this year by Northam. The people of the South Carolina department of Corrections should have no excuse on this and they should just go to Texas and they have will have the drug to kill him.

  2. #32
    Administrator Aaron's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    New Jersey, unfortunately
    Posts
    4,382
    Quote Originally Posted by Helen View Post
    Someone please answer this question from SoonerSaint, it was posted on another thread.

    I am sure I am doing this wrong, but is there a reason Richard Bernard Moore isn't on the execution calendar on CNCP? He is scheduled for Friday, which is strange enough, and South Carolina doesn't appear to have the drugs either.
    He's not on the calendar for the same reason He's not in the scheduled executions forum and the same reason we ignore Pennsylvania death dates - it's not a serious date and he isn't going to be executed.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

  3. #33
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Neil's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2020
    Posts
    1,248
    South Carolina says it can’t get drugs by Friday execution

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina prison officials say they have to delay an execution scheduled for Friday because they won’t be able to obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs.

    An attorney for the state Department of Corrections wrote in a letter to the South Carolina Supreme Court last week that the agency cannot carry out the execution of Richard Bernard Moore due to the lack of drugs, which it has not had stocked since 2013. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.

    The court scheduled Moore’s execution after he exhausted his federal appeals this month. Moore, 55, has spent nearly two decades on death row following his conviction for the 1999 killing of a convenience store clerk in Spartanburg County. He would be the first person executed in South Carolina in nearly a decade.

    The state’s usual injection protocol calls for three drugs: pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. But the corrections agency has said it has not had the drugs in stock since 2013, when its last supplies expired. The agency has previously said it reserves the right to execute Moore with a single lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital.

    Lindsey Vann, one of Moore’s attorneys, called the delay “unprecedented” on Monday, adding that she wasn’t aware of any other execution in South Carolina history requiring such a delay due to a lack of drugs.

    In 2017, corrections officials said they could not carry out the execution order of Bobby Wayne Stone without the appropriate drugs. At the time, however, Stone had not yet exhausted his appeals in court.

    Prison officials say that per state law, Moore must be executed by lethal injection by default because he did not choose between lethal injection and electrocution by a deadline set last month. Moore’s attorneys say he did not make a decision because the agency is not being transparent with its execution protocols.

    Moore’s legal team is also seeking to block the execution in federal court.

    Securing lethal injection drugs has become an increasingly difficult task in the U.S. as drug manufacturers have shied away from selling to states under pressure from anti-death penalty activists. Corrections chief Bryan Stirling, along with the governor and attorney general, have advocated for a bill to shield the identities of manufacturers who provide such drugs.

    State lawmakers have also mulled in recent years a bill to require death row prisoners to die by electric chair if lethal injection is not available.

    Moore is one of 37 people, all men, currently on South Carolina’s death row. Some prosecutors have sought the death penalty less often in recent years, citing the state’s inability to carry out executions.

    South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbt...execution/amp/

  4. #34
    Senior Member Frequent Poster NanduDas's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2018
    Location
    California
    Posts
    419
    Well, that settles that. Dumb that so many people in the media hyped this up when it was kind of obvious it wasn’t going to happen.
    "The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer." -Theodore Roosevelt

  5. #35
    Senior Member CnCP Addict
    Join Date
    Feb 2021
    Posts
    702
    Former chief of prisons says death row inmate deserves clemency

    By AP

    If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes — the electric chair or the firing squad.

    Moore is one of three prisoners on South Carolina's death row who have run out of appeals in the past six months and could be among the first to face the grim choice under a new state law. But his supporters — including the state's former prisons chief — say he deserves better.

    The state Supreme Court set and then stayed the prisoners' executions after the Corrections Department said it didn't have the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections. Now, Gov. Henry McMaster has signed a law requiring the condemned to choose to die by gunshot or electrocution if lethal injection drugs aren't available.

    South Carolina once had one of the nation's most prolific death chambers, but a shortage of the drugs has caused a decadelong lull in executions. The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and the fourth to allow a firing squad.

    Moore, 56, has lived on death row for two decades after being convicted in 2001 for the fatal shooting of convenience store clerk James Mahoney. The Spartanburg man hasn't made a choice, said his attorney Lindsey Vann, because he is focused on a current petition to the state Supreme Court.

    As his lawyers continue to mount court challenges, they're also preparing a case for clemency. Among his supporters is the former director of South Carolina's Department of Corrections, Jon Ozmint, who asserts Moore is a reformed man who deserves life without parole instead of death.

    "Circumstances took place inside the store that certainly made him guilty of killing another man, but in most counties in this state, I doubt you could even find a jury to recommend the death penalty on those facts," said Ozmint, a self-described supporter of the death penalty who helmed the department between 2003 and 2012 — one of the death chamber's busier periods.

    Moore's lawyers argued in front of the state Supreme Court this month that Moore's crime simply doesn't rise to the level of heinousness in other death penalty cases.

    Inmates most recently executed in the state include a man who strangled his cellmate while serving time for a double murder and a man who secretly took out life insurance policies on his wife and son before killing them and burning their bodies.

    "Richard's case just wasn't like theirs," Ozmint told The Associated Press.

    No one contests that Moore killed Mahoney, who was working at Nikki's Speedy Mart in Spartanburg County on Sept. 16, 1999. During the 2001 trial, prosecutors said Moore entered the store looking for money to support his cocaine habit and got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him.

    Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued. 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.

    At the time, Moore claimed that he acted in self-defense after Mahoney drew the first gun. His appeals lawyers have said that because Moore didn't bring a gun into the store, he couldn't have intended to kill someone when he walked in.

    Lawyers for the attorney general's office argued this month that Moore was trying to turn the court's attention away from "the damning evidence presented against him" and toward "generalities, innuendo and speculation."

    Mahoney's relatives haven't spoken publicly on the case in recent years. At the sentencing, family members described the 42-year-old clerk as a beloved uncle and friend who loved NASCAR and dutifully worked the third shift at the store, according to The Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

    "We're pleased with the verdict, and exceptionally pleased with the manner in which the case was prosecuted," Mahoney's father, James Mahoney, said at the time.

    Moore, who is Black, is the last person to enter death row with a trial where the state struck all potential African American jurors, according to Justice 360, the nonprofit that represents Moore and many others on South Carolina's death row.

    During Moore's trial, the jury learned of his rap sheet, ranging from weapons charges to burglary and assault convictions. But in prison, Moore has grown into a man remorseful for his crimes who's built up relationships with his family and his Christian faith, supporters say. In his two decades on death row, he has received just two minor infractions.

    "His life in the Department of Corrections has been exemplary. He's a giver, not a taker," Ozmint said.

    Even with the new law, Moore's fate remains a waiting game for all involved.

    "There's never anything definite, and it leaves your mind wondering: When's the last time I'm going to talk to him? When's the next time I can see him, because of the pandemic? Is this going to go in his favor or not?" said Moore's daughter, Alexandria Moore. "It definitely makes you get stuck in your own head, thinking about the hypotheticals."

    Retired state Rep. Gary Clary, who as a state judge presided over Moore's case, says it's inevitable that lawsuits will follow the bill's signing. On the House floor, he argued against similar legislation, noting it would continue costing the state more money in court.

    "When a jury convicted Richard Bernard Moore, I think I set his execution ... 90 days later. We all knew when those arbitrary dates were established, it wasn't going to happen anytime soon," Clary said. "And here we are, 20 years later."

    https://americanindependent.com/sout...enry-mcmaster/

  6. #36
    Moderator Bobsicles's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Location
    Tennessee
    Posts
    7,318
    S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready

    By Michelle Liu
    The Associated Press

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.

    The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set an April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.

    Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work around a decade-long pause in executions, attributed to the corrections agency’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.

    The new law made 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.

    The state corrections agency said last month it had finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.

    In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer shooters — all Corrections Department employees — will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart. A hood will be placed over the head of the inmate, who will be given the opportunity to make a last statement.

    South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

    Moore is one of 35 men on South Carolina’s death row. He exhausted his federal appeals in 2020, and the state Supreme Court denied another appeal this week.

    Lindsey Vann, an attorney for Moore, said Thursday she will ask the court to stay the execution.

    The state last scheduled an execution for Moore in 2020, which was then delayed after prison officials said they couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.

    During Moore’s 2001 trial, prosecutors said Moore entered the store looking for money to support his cocaine habit and got into a dispute with Mahoney, who drew a pistol that Moore wrestled away from him.

    Mahoney pulled a second gun, and a gunfight ensued. 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.

    At the time, Moore claimed that he acted in self-defense after Mahoney drew the first gun.

    Moore’s supporters have argued his crime doesn’t rise to the level of heinousness in other death penalty cases in the state. His appeals lawyers have said that because Moore didn’t bring a gun into store, he couldn’t have intended to kill someone when he walked in.

    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.

    https://apnews.com/article/business-...1caa49c38595eb
    Thank you for the adventure - Axol

    Tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter - Linkin Park

    Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. - Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt

    I’m going to the ghost McDonalds - Garcello

  7. #37
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward

    By MICHELLE LIU
    The Associated Press/Report for America

    A judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit brought by four death row inmates challenging South Carolina's execution methods can move forward as the state attempts to carry out its first execution in more than a decade.

    Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman agreed to a request by the prisoners' lawyers to closely examine officials’ claims that they can’t secure lethal injection drugs, leaving the electric chair and the firing squad as the only options for capital punishment.

    Attorneys for the inmates, who have largely exhausted their appeals, argued that dying by gunshot or electrocution would be a brutal process which violates a state ban on cruel, corporal and unusual punishments, and that prison officials have shown little proof they can't get the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections instead.

    The decision comes a week after the state Supreme Court scheduled the April 29 execution of Richard Bernard Moore, who has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.

    Moore, 57, is also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year making electrocution the default and giving inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead when lethal injection isn't an option. State law requires him to make that choice by Friday.

    Lawyers for the state, who wanted the case dismissed, argued that neither electrocution nor the firing squad are cruel, corporal or unusual forms of punishment, noting the long history of both methods across the country.

    Grayson Lambert, representing Gov. Henry McMaster, said the judge shouldn't let the prisoners continue to extend their legal challenges to stall their executions as prison officials try to carry out the new law.

    “It’s telling that in every case where there is a plaintiff challenging the method, he always says the method he is facing is worse,” Lambert said.

    Newman previously denied a request last year by two death row prisoners, Freddie Owens and Brad Sigmon, seeking to block their scheduled executions with similar arguments. Those executions were later halted by the state Supreme Court because prisons officials had yet to set up a firing squad.

    If executed as scheduled, Moore would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011. His attorneys are also asking a federal judge to halt Moore’s execution and declare both the electric chair and firing squad unconstitutional under federal law, among other legal challenges.

    Moore's lawyers have asked the state Supreme Court stop the execution given the ongoing litigation. The high court has yet to rule on the request.

    South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

    There are 35 people, all men, currently on South Carolina's death row.

    https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/ar...n-17081319.php
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

  8. #38
    Moderator Bobsicles's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2019
    Location
    Tennessee
    Posts
    7,318
    South Carolina inmate chooses death by firing squad instead of electric chair

    By Natalie Dreier
    Cox Media Group

    A man who had been sentenced to death has chosen to die by firing squad instead of the electric chair when his sentence is carried out later this month.

    Richard Bernard Moore, 57, will be the first prisoner to be able to decide how he would be executed after a law went into effect last year that made the electric chair the default method but gave prisoners the option to select a firing squad, manned by three prison workers armed with rifles, The Associated Press reported.

    Moore has been on death row since he was convicted of the 1999 killing of a convenience store clerk, the AP reported.

    Prosecutors said Moore went to the store trying to get money to support a drug habit. He got into a fight with the clerk, who pulled out a gun. Moore wrestled the weapon away from the clerk, but the store employee pulled out a second gun and shot Moore in the arm. Moore then shot the clerk in the chest before he looked through the store for cash, leaving a trail of blood behind, prosecutors said, according to WLTX.

    Moore said he shot the clerk in self-defense since the other man pulled out a gun first, WLTX reported.

    Moore’s supporters said the crime should not be a death penalty case. His attorneys said that because he didn’t bring a gun to the store, he didn’t intend to kill anyone.

    If he is put to death as scheduled on April 29, his death will be the first execution in South Carolina since 2011.

    The change came after corrections officials said they had difficulty getting the drugs used for lethal injection executions. Moore’s attorney has asked that his execution be delayed as another court determines if the electric chair or the firing squad is a cruel or unusual punishment. His attorneys say the prison is not doing enough to get the drugs and that the prison is forcing prisoners to choose between two barbaric methods, the AP reported.

    Moore’s attorneys are also asking the state supreme court to delay the execution so the U.S. Supreme Court can determine if his sentence is disproportionate compared to similar crimes. A state judge recently denied that appeal.

    South Carolina is one of eight states that still use an electric chair for executions, and one of four that allow firing squads, WLTX reported.

    There are 35 men currently on death row in South Carolina.

    https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/tr...z6u3aukwgjdq4b
    Thank you for the adventure - Axol

    Tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter - Linkin Park

    Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. - Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt

    I’m going to the ghost McDonalds - Garcello

  9. #39
    Senior Member CnCP Addict maybeacomedian's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    IL
    Posts
    657

    Richard Bernard Moore

  10. #40
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Neil's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2020
    Posts
    1,248
    South Carolina Supreme Court orders halt to planned execution by firing squad with temporary stay

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) - South Carolina Supreme Court orders halt to planned execution by firing squad with a temporary stay.

    Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year making electrocution the default and giving 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, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011 and the fourth in the country to die by firing squad in nearly half a century. Only three executions in the United States have been carried out by firing squad since 1976, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Moore’s would mark the first since Ronnie Lee Gardner ‘s 2010 execution by a five-person firing squad in Utah.

    https://www.wmbfnews.com/2022/04/20/...emporary-stay/

Page 4 of 5 FirstFirst ... 2345 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •