South Carolina put richard moore The man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in 1999 was sentenced to death by lethal injection Friday, despite widespread appeals for mercy by the parties, including three jurors and his trial judge, a former prison The director, the pastor and his family were included.
Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m.
Moore was convicted of murdering a Spartanburg convenience store clerk in September 1999 and sentenced to death two years later.
Moore went into the store unarmed, when the gun was pointed at him he took the gun from the victim and fatally shot him in the chest, while the victim shot him in the arm with the other gun.
Moore’s lawyers asked Republican Governor Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence to life in prison without parole because of his unblemished prison record and willingness to become a mentor to other prisoners.
He also said it would be unjust to execute someone in self-defense and also unfair that Moore, who is black, was the only death row inmate in the state convicted by a jury without any African Americans.
But McMaster refused to grant clemency.
No South Carolina governor has commuted the death penalty, and there have been 45 executions since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions nearly 50 years ago.
