Richard M. is scheduled to run in April. But because the poison for the injection is missing, the prisoner now has to make a horrible choice.
The US state of South Carolina has not executed a prisoner in over a decade. The reason for this was that the authorities could not find the substances for the lethal injection.
To get around this problem, a year ago the Chamber of Deputies voted to introduce firing squads as a method of execution. Alternatively, prisoners sentenced to death can opt for the electric chair.
On April 29, the first prisoner since the law change will be executed. Richard Bernard M. (57) shot and killed James Mahoney, a clerk, during a supermarket robbery in 1999. At the time, he claimed to have acted in self-defense. However, he was sentenced to death.
The last filming was in 1977
Richard Bernard Moore’s lawyers have asked the state Supreme Court to suspend the execution. The choice between the two forms of death is “cruel and unusual”, the lawyers argue. “I am forced to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution,” says death row inmate Richard M himself. He eventually opted for execution by firing squad.
If the execution is carried out by firing squad on April 29, it will be the first such execution since 1977. Currently, South Carolina has 24 people on death row.
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