Richard Moore was executed by injection on Friday in South Carolina for the fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk in 1999, minutes after the appeal his lawyers sent to Republican Governor Henry McMaster for clemency failed.
Richard Moore was executed by injection this Friday, at 6:24 p.m. EDT in South Carolina for the fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk back in 1999, after a series of appeals claiming his case wasn’t fair.
Unfortunately all legal options failed, placing the case in front of the state’s Republican governor. Ultimately, Governor Henry McMaster decided against Moore, denying his bid to live out the rest of his life behind bars…