SC Inmate Asks Judges To Halt Firing Squad Or electrocution
A Black South Carolina inmate scheduled to die by a firing squad or the electric chair later this month, is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution.
Richard Bernard Moore is seeking the stay until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment.
Moore is set to die April 29.
He has until next Friday to choose between the electric chair or being shot by three volunteer prison workers.
The electric chair has been used twice in the past 30 years.
State law also allows lethal injection.
South Carolina has not executed an inmate in nearly 11 years.
The 57-year-old Moore has spent more than two decades on death row, after being convicted in 2001 of killing a convenience store clerk.
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