COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a man who killed four people during a 2002 crime spree across the Carolinas.
The state's high court ruled Monday that the 2005 death sentence against Quincy Allen was proper.
Allen pleaded guilty to killing 22-year-old Jedediah Harr and 45-year-old Dale Hall in July 2002. He also pleaded guilty to shooting and wounding a homeless man a few days earlier.
Allen's attorneys argued his life should be spared because of his mental disorders, but Circuit Judge Thomas Cooper Jr. disagreed.
Allen avoided the death penalty in North Carolina after pleading guilty to killing 53-year-old convenience store clerk Richard Hawks and a 29-year-old customer, Robert Roush, in Dobson, N.C., in August 2002.
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