A South Carolina inmate facing execution is seeking to have the power of granting clemency taken away from the governor and placed with a parole board. The inmate's lawyers argue that the governor, a former state attorney general, may not be able to fairly consider the request due to his past involvement in upholding the inmate's death sentence.
The inmate, Richard Moore, is scheduled to be executed for the 1999 shooting of a store clerk during a robbery. Moore's attorneys are urging a federal judge to halt the execution until the issue of clemency is resolved.
