South Carolina executes inmate despite broad appeal for clemency

A broad appeal for mercy, including by jurors, the judge from his original trial, a former prison director, ordinary people, and members of his family, fell on deaf ears.

The United States state of South Carolina put inmate Richard Moore to death by lethal injection on Friday.

“Mr Moore was sentenced to death for killing 42-year-old James Mahoney on September 16, 1999, as Mahoney worked at a Spartanburg convenience store,” said the…