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South Carolina death row inmate picks firing squad over electric chair
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:02 pm
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A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday.
Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is the also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last year making electrocution the default and giving inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead.
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The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
In a written statement, Moore said he didn’t concede that either method was legal or constitutional, but that he more strongly opposed death by electrocution and only chose the firing squad because he was required to make a choice.
“I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution, and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election,” Moore said in the statement.
Moore’s attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court determines if either available method is cruel and unusual punishment. The attorneys argue prisons officials aren’t trying hard enough to get the lethal injection drugs, instead forcing prisoners to choose between two more barbaric methods.
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Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:05 pm to WPBTiger
With the cost of bullets these days that is way too expensive of an option. A good hemp rope from a nice limber oak tree branch that has some bounce would do just fine.
Environmentally friendly and reusable just like the environmentalist like.
Environmentally friendly and reusable just like the environmentalist like.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:06 pm to WPBTiger
If he chooses this, then I’m not sure why they are complaining about the execution style
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:09 pm to WPBTiger
I can respect this.. Well, respect might be the wrong word considering he is a killer on death row, but will it be streamed anywhere?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:10 pm to WPBTiger
I don't see how anybody can argue that instant death by any means is cruel.
Firing squad.
Decapitation.
Hand grenade.
You name it.
As for unusual, who gives a frick?
Firing squad.
Decapitation.
Hand grenade.
You name it.
As for unusual, who gives a frick?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:10 pm to WPBTiger
Fitting for someone that shot a convenience store clerk to death.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:17 pm to WPBTiger
quote:
which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
Seems like every junkie in the US can find fentanyl. How about we use that?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:21 pm to OweO
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n death row, but will it be streamed anywhere
I chuckled
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:25 pm to WPBTiger
Why not death by fire ants?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:26 pm to WPBTiger
I would too
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:27 pm to WPBTiger
Isn’t 3 a low number to have on a firing squad? Especially if one of them is shooting a blank.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:27 pm to Vamos Brandonos
I dunno about that last one lol
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:36 pm to WPBTiger
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three prison workers with rifles instead
Who mourns for the executioners?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:37 pm to WPBTiger
Guillotine what probably be a pretty painless way to die. Would be weird looking around until your brain died though.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:38 pm to WPBTiger
quote:this will drag out another 20 years
Moore’s attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death while another court determines if either available method is cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:38 pm to WPBTiger
I’d much prefer firing squad to electric chair. Hell, if I have to be executed, just put me on my knees and shoot me in the back of the head.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:40 pm to BRIllini07
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Isn’t 3 a low number to have on a firing squad? Especially if one of them is shooting a blank.
I thought only one of the three had the live round?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:41 pm to GREENHEAD22
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With the cost of bullets these days that is way too expensive of an option. A good hemp rope from a nice limber oak tree branch that has some bounce would do just fine.
Environmentally friendly and reusable just like the environmentalist like.
Or you could just send him to Chicago and let the other trash take him out for free.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:42 pm to WPBTiger
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which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
This always amazes me. We know that fentanyl in very small doses leads to a very quick and painless death. And thanks to our neighbors to the south and/or pharmaceutical industry innovation it's something we have plenty of. Let him go out of this world high as frick.
I feel like a bottle of sleeping pills would also work.
This post was edited on 4/15/22 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:46 pm to AndyCBR
I think 1 is a blank and the rest are live rounds.
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