Richard Bernard Moore, 57, is also the first inmate in the United States to choose the method of execution after enacting a law last year that made electric shock the default, with the choice to face three prison workers with rifles. It has been more than 20 years since the 1999 murder of a convenience store employee named James Mahoney in Spartanburg. Its execution is scheduled for April 29. If he goes ahead, he will be the first person to be killed in the state since 2011. The new law led to a decade-long break in which correctional workers blamed the inability to obtain the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections. Moore’s lawyers have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his death, while another court decides whether either of the two available methods constitutes harsh and unusual punishment. Prison officials say they are not working hard enough to get the lethal injectable drugs, forcing inmates to choose between two more barbaric methods. Moore’s lawyers are also asking the state Supreme Court to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether his death sentence is too harsh compared to similar crimes. State judges rejected a similar appeal last week. The State Correctional Facility completed the development process for the extradition execution last month and spent $ 53,600 (41 41,025) renovating the Columbia death chamber, which included installing a metal chair with an open wall-mounted bracket. 15 feet (4.6 meters). Away. The death toll from the execution squad would include three volunteer prison workers using their rifles to shoot the convicted prisoner’s heart. South Carolina is among four states that allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. It is one of the eight states that still use the electric chair.