His attorneys have appealed to the United States Supreme Court
Assessment of the two alternatives firing squad or electric chair both unconstitutional
and also to ask for a restatement of the judgment for his client, which is considered disproportionate. States that allow death sentences usually enforce them by lethal injection. However, in recent years it has become increasingly difficult to find the necessary poison mixture after many pharmaceutical companies and many countries around the world have banned its export to the United States on humanitarian grounds.
For this reason, the executioner last went into action in South Carolina in 2011. Since those convicted had previously been able to choose between the injection and the electric chair, they had opted for the former, effectively avoiding their execution
lack of medicines
. To address the issue, South Carolina introduced shooting in May 2021, becoming the fourth U.S. state to do so. It was then determined that the electric chair was the primary method and that a firing squad was the alternative. The shootout involves three prison guards firing from a hole in a wall in front of the hooded prisoner who is tied to a chair.
Moore’s attorneys requested a stay of enforcement of the sentence to give the Supreme Court time to consider the case.