South Carolina Firing Squad

[kdog]

My good ol' home state of South Carolina has given death row inmates the choice of the electric chair or firing squad. 

There is a man scheduled to be executed soon and he chose the firing squad. To me, I think that's a wise choice. 

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 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 but giving inmates the option to face three prison workers with rifles instead.
Moore has spent more than two decades on death row after being convicted of the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg. If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-moo...execution/