South Carolina issued an order Thursday to execute a prisoner for the first time in 11 years – a sentence that could lead to the state’s first death by firing squad.Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is scheduled to be put to death on April 29 for the fatal shooting of a Spartanburg convenience store clerk during a botched robbery in 1999.Moore was set to be killed by the state in 2020, but the execution was deferred because the correction department couldn’t obtain drugs to use for a lethal injection.
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