A black man convicted in an all-white South Carolina state trial of murdering a cashier in 1999 is scheduled to be executed today. Richard Moore, 59, was sentenced to death in 2001 for the slaying of James Mahoney, a cashier at a convenience store that Moore entered unarmed. A fight broke out, the cashier pulled out a gun and both men were injured, Mahoney fatally. Moore then left the store after taking money from the cash register. Moore claimed he acted in self-defense. If his execution, scheduled for tonight (US local time), goes ahead, it will be the 21st in the US since the start of the year, all by lethal injection, except for two in Alabama (southern) by nitrogen inhalation, a method that it was denounced by the UN which compared it to a form of “torture”. South Carolina carried out its first execution since 2011 in September. Having run out […]
Source: News Beast
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