Death Sentence Upheld

(AP) _ The South Carolina Supreme Court hasupheld the death sentence of a man who killed four people during a2002 crime spree across the Carolinas. The state’s high court ruled Monday that the 2005 death sentenceagainst Quincy Allen was proper. Allen pleaded guilty to killing 22-year-old Jedediah Harr and45-year-old Dale Hall in July 2002. He also pleaded guilty toshooting and wounding a homeless man a few days earlier. Allen’s attorneys argued his life should be spared because ofhis mental disorders, but Circuit Judge Thomas Cooper Jr.disagreed. Allen avoided the death penalty in North Carolina after pleadingguilty to killing 53-year-old convenience store clerk Richard Hawksand a 29-year-old customer, Robert Roush, in Dobson, N.C., inAugust 2002. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)