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01-07-2010, 08:43 AM
Execution set for Jan 8th, 2010,
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A death row inmate has ended his appeals and asked South Carolina to execute him in the electric chair.
Prison officials Thursday scheduled Quincy Allen's death for Jan. 8, 2010. Allen killed four people across South Carolina and North Carolina in the summer of 2002.
Allen's decision to die came just two weeks after he tried to escape from death row with cop killer Mikal Deen Mahdi. Authorities say the pair stabbed a guard in a fenced-in recreation yard but were quickly caught.
South Carolina allows inmates to choose between lethal injection and electrocution. The state has executed two inmates in 2009.
It would be the second electrocution in the U.S. in two months. A Virginia killer chose to die in that state's electric chair in November.
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Inmate appeals execution as date looms
A death row inmate whose execution date was set for next month has appealed his case in federal court.
Defense attorney Bob Dudek said Thursday he filed the request to stay Quincy Allen's execution.
The appeal was filed hours after state prison officials set a Jan. 8 execution date and said Allen chose to die in the electric chair. Dudek says that will likely be delayed because Allen also has the potential for a state appeal remaining.
The state Supreme Court refused Thursday to reconsider its decision to uphold Allen's death sentence.
Allen killed four people across South Carolina and North Carolina in the summer of 2002.
Authorities say he tried to escape from death row two weeks ago, stabbing a guard.
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/1221550.html
Here's the story:
http://off2dr.com/modules/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7859.0;attach=1043 ;image
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A death row inmate has ended his appeals and asked South Carolina to execute him in the electric chair.
Prison officials Thursday scheduled Quincy Allen's death for Jan. 8, 2010. Allen killed four people across South Carolina and North Carolina in the summer of 2002.
Allen's decision to die came just two weeks after he tried to escape from death row with cop killer Mikal Deen Mahdi. Authorities say the pair stabbed a guard in a fenced-in recreation yard but were quickly caught.
South Carolina allows inmates to choose between lethal injection and electrocution. The state has executed two inmates in 2009.
It would be the second electrocution in the U.S. in two months. A Virginia killer chose to die in that state's electric chair in November.
____________
Inmate appeals execution as date looms
A death row inmate whose execution date was set for next month has appealed his case in federal court.
Defense attorney Bob Dudek said Thursday he filed the request to stay Quincy Allen's execution.
The appeal was filed hours after state prison officials set a Jan. 8 execution date and said Allen chose to die in the electric chair. Dudek says that will likely be delayed because Allen also has the potential for a state appeal remaining.
The state Supreme Court refused Thursday to reconsider its decision to uphold Allen's death sentence.
Allen killed four people across South Carolina and North Carolina in the summer of 2002.
Authorities say he tried to escape from death row two weeks ago, stabbing a guard.
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/1221550.html