South Carolina set to execute Richard Moore after Supreme Court rejects appeal

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Nov. 1 (UPI) -- South Carolina is set to execute Richard Moore on Friday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal. Lawyers for Moore have also written to Gov. Henry McMaster asking for clemency. Advertisement The judge and two jurors from Moore's original trial are among those who have signed a petition calling for McMaster to commute his sentence to life in prison. "The trial judge who ultimately imposed the death sentence after the jury made their decision that the death

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