South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors
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Moore, 59, was killed on Friday evening as the state pursues a rapid spree of killings

Moore, 59, awaits clemency from the governor as his children plead for his life to be spared

South Carolina is on track to execute a man on death row on Friday, despite growing concerns about the validity of his sentence and objections from the judge who originally condemned him to death.

Richard Moore, 59, is due to be killed by lethal injection at 6pm unless the state’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, grants clemency. Moore’s children have pleaded for his life to be spared, and his resentencing efforts are now supported by the former corrections department director, two trial jurors, the judge who presided over the case and a former state supreme court justice.

The case has drawn scrutiny over racial bias and the unusual nature of his death sentence, and is part of a spate of rapid executions the state is pursuing.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    563·
    20 days ago

    I’m just so surprised that in addition to not deterring crime at all (and possibly making it marginally worse), not being humane whatsoever, and being far, far more expensive, it’s also completely wrong all the time.

    Anyone who still supports the death penalty state-sanctioned murder at this point is either grossly mis-/underinformed or is a “but it’s fine as long as we make really, really sure they did it!” person (not realizing there’s a decades-long appeal process or that administrations who use it don’t actually give a shit about the certainty of a conviction). That, or revenge just makes their pp hard and they genuinely don’t care about the fact it’s categorically worse in every way.

    • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      20 days ago

      This is a brilliantly expressed comment and I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you for posting this and have a good day.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    261·
    20 days ago

    Disgusting. I don’t have the words.

    I don’t have the words because I have 0 doubt that this man will be dead in less that 11 hours.

    No fucking way some republican governor in South Carolina is going to spare the life of a black man this close to an election that could damn well bring back slavery.

    Abhorrent.

  • Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
    81·
    20 days ago

    What would you not do to save a life? Would you not break the law? Would you not interfere with “official proceedings”? “Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-political class in a given nation.” Fight back.

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    20 days ago

    The system is broken and will continue to be broken until something fundamentally changes, but there are too many in power who only care about maintaining their power.