On the heels of Missouri’s’s controversial execution of Marcellus Williams, South Carolina plans to execute Richard Moore on Nov. 1 for the 1999 murder of James Mahoney, who was working at Nikki’s Speedy Mart in Spartanburg County.
According to the Associated Press, like Williams’ execution, questions about the fairness of the justice system loom over this case. Moore, a Black man, is currently the only person on death row convicted by a jury without any Black people on it.
Lindsey Vann, Moore’s attorney, told the AP that Moore’s case carries distinction for another reason, he is currently the only person in modern South Carolina history sentenced to die after committing a murder in self-defense.
“Moore’s execution would not be an act of justice; it would be an arbitrary act of vengeance. Moore is not the ‘worst of the worst’ for whom the death penalty is supposed to be reserved. Instead, his death sentence is based on racial discrimination that the judicial…
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