COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's high court on Friday set a date of Nov.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ago, the second of an expected six executions in about six months as the state ramps up its use of capital punishment after a 13-year pause.
The state Legislature has since passed a law allowing officials to keep lethal injection drug suppliers secret, and in July, the state Supreme Court cleared the way to restart executions. The prisons director has until next week to confirm that all three execution methods will be available. He must also give Moore’s lawyers proof that the lethal injection drug is stable and correctly mixed, according to the high court’s 2023 interpretation of the state’s secrecy law on executions that helped reopen the door to South Carolina’s death chamber.
Moore plans to ask Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, for mercy and to reduce his sentence to life without parole. No South Carolina governor has ever granted clemency in the modern era of the death penalty. Moore told investigators he went into the store unarmed, looking for money for cocaine. Mahoney pulled a gun on Moore, and he wrestled the pistol away from the clerk, according to trial testimony.
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