South Carolina puts Richard Moore death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad plea for mercy from parties that included three jurors and the judge in his trial, a former prison warden, pastors and family saddle.

Moore, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m

Moore was convicted of killing the Spartanburg store clerk in September 1999 and sentenced to death two years later.

Moore entered the store unarmed, took a gun from the victim when it was pointed at him, and fatally shot him in the chest while the victim shot him with a second gun in the arm.

Moore’s attorneys asked Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to commute his sentence to life in prison without parole because of his unblemished prison record and willingness to mentor other inmates.

They also said it would be unfair to execute someone for what could be considered self-defense and unfair that Moore, who is Black, was the only inmate on the state’s death row convicted by a non-African-American jury.

But McMaster refused to grant clemency.

No South Carolina governor has commuted the death penalty, and 45 executions have now been carried out since the US Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions nearly 50 years ago.