Richard Moore, a condemned prisoner from Spartanburg, has chosen to die by lethal injection. He will be South Carolina's second inmate to be executed in 2024.

A condemned South Carolina inmate has chosen to be executed by lethal injection for killing a store clerk in 1999.

Richard Moore will be the second person executed in South Carolina following a 13-year pause when the state ran out of the drugs needed for lethal injections.

State prison officials had told Richard Moore this month he could choose the method for his Nov. 1 execution. State law had given him until Friday to decide.

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