Firing squad

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair.

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore chose to be executed by firing squad rather than the electric chair at the end of this month, according to ...

Richard Moore, 57, convicted of 1999 killing of convenience store clerk, to be first prisoner put to death in South Carolina since 2011.

Moore has been on death row for two decades after he was convicted of murder in 2001 for killing a convenience store clerk during an attempted robbery—though ...

A man sentenced to death in South Carolina has chosen to be executed by firing squad rather than the electric chair, which would make him the first death ...

If the execution is carried out as planned on April 29, Richard Bernard Moore, 57, will be the first person executed in the state since 2011 — and the first in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Richard Moore chose death by firing squad Friday as his execution date approaches. Moore, a death row inmate, was given the choice by ...

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled for execution later this month has chosen to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair.

Richard Bernard Moore is the first prisoner in South Carolina to face the choice of execution methods since the state made electrocution the default and ...

A South Carolina prisoner was faced with what he called "two unconstitutional methods of execution," the electric chair or carried out by firing squad.

Moore made the selection while arguing that both of his two allegedly available choices, a firing squad and the electric chair, are both unconstitutional.