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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and members...
South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life
Justices refuse to stop execution of South Carolina inmate who says the jury was racially biased
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a Black inmate whose lawyers say he is the only person on the death's death row convicted by a jury with no African American members. There were no...
The son of a South Carolina inmate urges the governor to save his father from execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Richard Moore never meant to kill anyone the night he robbed a South Carolina convenience store and the Black man was convicted by a jury with no African Americans, his son and lawyers say as they fight to save the inmate from execution next month. Moore went...
US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine's 'audacious' Russia incursion and call for a Gaza cease-fire
LONDON (AP) — The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said Saturday that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding 2 1/2-year war, as they urged Kyiv's allies not to be held back by Russian...