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.

Attorneys for convicted killer Richard B. Moore are arguing Gov. Henry McMaster cannot be neutral in deciding whether a man he helped convict lives or dies.

A South Carolina inmate scheduled for execution argues Gov. Henry McMaster can’t fairly decide whether to commute his sentence, since he was the state’s chief prosecutor who fought to keep the condemned on death row.

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.