Richard Moore was sentenced to death in the 1999 fatal shooting of a store clerk.
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South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.
