Richard Benard Moore has been put to death by the state, making him the second person executed in South Carolina in the past three months. Moore, 59, was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:24 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Facility in Columbia. He was on death row for the Sept. 16, 1999, shooting death of James Mahoney at Nikki’s Speed Mart in Spartanburg. Moore was convicted of murder by an all-white jury on Oct. 20, 2001, and received the death penalty two days later.