Attorney for SC death row inmate pushes for clemency ahead of scheduled execution

COLUMBIA S.C. – In one week, South Carolina inmate Richard Moore is scheduled to be the second person executed in the state this year. Moore was sentenced to death by a jury for killing store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg county back in 1999. As his execution day draws closer, Richard Moore’s attorney Lindsey Vann continues to argue that he was wrongfully convicted, and his case is caught in the middle of a number of racial and political factors.

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