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Quincy Allen killed four people across North and South Carolina in summer 2002. The SC Supreme Court has granted a stay to the death row inmate. Allen had chosen to die in the electric chair.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's highest court has granted a stay to a death row inmate who was just days away from his scheduled execution.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request by defense attorneys to stay Quincy Allen's execution, which was scheduled for Jan. 8.
Attorney Robert Dudek filed the appeal last month, hours after state prison officials set the execution date.
Allen had chosen to die in the electric chair. In South Carolina, inmates have the choice between lethal injection and execution.
Allen killed four people across South Carolina and North Carolina in the summer of 2002.
He was moved from death row to South Carolina's supermax prison last month after authorities said he tried to escape, stabbing a guard.
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