Hours away from execution, South Carolina man appeals to the governor for mercy
South Carolina is scheduled to kill death row inmate Richard Moore by lethal injection. Moore has one last chance to avoid death on Friday evening. Moore's lawyers have filed a clemency request to Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence to life in prison for the 1999 killing of a Spartanburg store clerk during a shootout. Three jurors, the trial judge, a former state prison director and a number of relatives and pastors all say Moore is remorseful and is making a difference with inmates in prison. Moore's lawyers also say it isn't fair there were no African Americans on the jury that sentenced him to death. Moore is Black.