If executed as scheduled on April 29, he would be the first person put to death in the state since 2011.
This 2019 photo shows the electric chair previously used by the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
The new law was prompted by the decadelong break, which corrections officials attribute to an inability to procure the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections.
Richard Moore South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP.
In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer prison workers will train their rifles on the condemned prisoner's heart.
South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
In 2020, South Carolina postponed Moore's execution after the state could not obtain the drugs to carry out lethal injection. »