As previously reported by BLACK ENTERPRISE , South Carolina faced backlash and protests over the scheduled execution of Richard Moore. Despite the outcry, Moore was executed by the state on Nov. 1.
According to CNN , Moore was executed only one day after the Supreme Court declined Moore’s request for a stay on the grounds that prosecutors created a racially exclusive all-white jury.
In addition, Moore requested clemency from South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster but McMaster denied the request, in keeping with comments he made in 2022 regarding Moore’s case.
Moore’s son, Lyndall Moore, who was four at the time Moore killed James Mahoney, a Spartanville store clerk, said that his father should have received mercy.
“He’s a human being who made mistakes ,” Lyndall Moore said to the Associated Press. “And this particular mistake led to the death of another human being. But his sentence is completely disproportionate to the actual crime.”
At a South Carolina Department of Corrections news conference on Nov. 1, Chrysti Shain, the department’s spokesperson, announced the 59-year-old Richard Moore’s last words.