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A stay in South Carolina

By cdw

The chances for  South Carolina appear to have disappeared. Days before an inmate on South Carolina’s death row was scheduled to die by electrocution, the state’s highest court on Tuesday granted the man a stay so his attorneys can pursue a federal appeal.The decision from the state Supreme Court postpones Quincy Allen’s execution, which had been scheduled Friday, until at least March 16. That delay gives his attorneys time to file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, appellate defense attorney Robert Dudek said Tuesday. Allen, 30, was sentenced to death in 2005 after admitting to a 2002 crime spree in which he killed four people across North and South Carolina in the delusional hope of becoming a mafia hit man. Allen told police he would have killed more but he couldn’t legally buy a handgun because he had spent time in prison for stealing a vehicle...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).