A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in just over three weeks is asking a federal judge to take away the power of granting clemency from the governor and place it with a parole board.
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The Broad River Correctional Institution, where Freddie Eugene Owens died by lethal injection in this state prison complex in Columbia, S.C., is shown on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. The South Carolina constitution gives the governor the sole right to spare an inmate's life, and Gov. Henry McMaster's lawyers said he intends to retain it.Lawyers for Richard Moore are arguing that McMaster cannot fairly consider the inmate's request to reduce his death sentence to life without parole because for eight years starting in 2003 he was the state's lead prosecutor and oversaw attorneys who successfully fought to uphold Moore's death sentence.
Currently, nine states, including South Carolina, are run by former attorneys general. Among the top prosecutors cited by the state who later become governors and made decisions on clemency is former President Bill Clinton in Arkansas. State law gives Moore until Oct. 18 to decide or by default that he will be electrocuted. His execution would mark thein the modern era of the death penalty. McMaster has said he decides each case on its merits after a through review
McMaster has said he will follow longtime tradition in South Carolina and wait until minutes before an execution is set to begin to announce whether he will grant clemency in a phone call prison officials make to see if there are any final appeals or other reasons to spare an inmate's life.
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