COLUMBIA S.C. — In a few days, South Carolina inmate Richard Moore is scheduled to be the second person executed in the state this year, and his attorney continues to fight against it.
Moore was sentenced to death by a jury for killing store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg county back in 1999. As his execution day draws closer, his attorney Lindsey Vann continues to argue that he was wrongfully convicted, and his case is caught in the middle of a number of racial and political factors.
Vann said due to an all-white jury issuing his judgment, a contentious political race between solicitors at the time of his trial, and what they feel is a conflict of interest with the governor — Richard Moore should be removed from death row…