Richard Bernard Moore is a 59-year-old Black man, is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina on 1 November 2024 for the murder of a white convenience store clerk. Richard Moore was unarmed when he entered the store, demonstrating a lack of premeditation that raises serious questions as to whether the crime rose to the level for which the death penalty is reserved in US constitutional law. Both men were shot, the clerk fatally, after the clerk pulled two firearms on Richard Moore. At the 2001 trial, the prosecutor dismissed the only two prospective Black jurors, resulting in an all-white jury. We urge the South Carolina governor to grant clemency and commute Richard Moore’s death sentence.
