A federal judge has rejected the request of a South Carolina man scheduled for execution next week to remove the governor's power to grant clemency and allow someone else to consider his case.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has the authority to grant or deny condemned inmate Richard Moore's clemency application, a federal court judge has ruled.

Gov. Henry McMaster can decide whether to grant clemency in the state’s upcoming execution, a federal judge decided. Ahead of Richard Moore’s execution, scheduled for Nov. 1, his attorneys argued that McMaster could not make a fair decision on whether to commute Moore’s sentence to life in prison — a last resort for

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.