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   From: he-failed-to-repatriate-niggers@reparations.org   
      
   You lawmen had your chance to kill him when you arrested him.   
      
   Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says he’s “very disappointed” in a   
   decision by the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office to not seek the death penalty   
   for a man formerly on death row after murdering two people in Richland   
   County.   
      
   The man will now serve life in prison, a decision supported by the victims’   
   families, according to the solicitor’s office.   
      
   Qunicy Allen, who said he wanted to be a Mafia hitman, was convicted in 2002   
   of brutally murdering two people in Richland County before killing two more   
   in North Carolina.   
      
   Locally, Allen shot and killed Dale Hale, a woman he met on Two Notch Road,   
   with a shotgun near I-77 in Columbia. He then doused her body with gasoline   
   and set it on fire. A month after that killing, Allen ⏤ again using a   
   shotgun ⏤ shot and killed Jedediah Harr, a bystander in an argument Allen   
   had with others outside the Texas Roadhouse Grill on Two Notch Road.   
      
   Although Allen was ultimately sentenced to death, his sentence was   
   overturned in 2022 by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which found   
   that the trial judge failed to “consider” all favorable evidence for him in   
   the case.   
      
      
   “I am very disappointed in your decision,” Lott wrote in an email to 5th   
   Circuit Deputy Solicitor Dan Goldberg and Gipson. “Quincy Allen is a cold-   
   blooded killer of four victims. He will continue to kill as he has already   
   demonstrated in prison. Any other deaths/injuries/crimes committed by him   
   will be the result of your decision.   
      
   “It’s sad that the voices of the victims cannot be heard because we are not   
   speaking for them,” Lott said.   
      
   While incarcerated, Allen was charged with assault and battery on a prison   
   employee with intent to kill in 2009, according to South Carolina Department   
   of Corrections records. In 2012, he was charged with possessing a weapon   
   while still behind bars and, in 2014, for threatening to inflict harm on a   
   prison employee.   
      
   Prior to the 4th Circuit overturning Allen’s sentence, the S.C. Supreme   
   Court unanimously upheld his death sentence in 2009, saying the sentence was   
   “proper” and supported by ample aggravating circumstances that made him   
   eligible for the death penalty.   
      
   “Allen gave statements to police outlining the details of his crimes,” the   
   Supreme Court noted. “He told police he began killing people because an   
   inmate in federal prison, where Allen spent time for stealing a vehicle, had   
   told him he could get him a job as a Mafia hit man.”   
      
   Before starting his death spree, Allen used a homeless man, James White, 51   
   ⏤ who was sitting on a bench in Finlay Park in downtown Columbia ⏤ for   
   target practice. Allen shot him twice to learn how to use his shotgun, the   
   high court noted.   
      
   “If anyone deserves the death penalty, it’s Quincy Allen,” Lott told The   
   State Friday.   
      
   In an email last week to Lott and attorneys connected to Allen’s case,   
   Goldberg said the decision to not re-try Allen for the death penalty was   
   largely based on wishes from the victims’ families.   
      
   “After a great deal of consideration, we have decided to allow Mr. Allen to   
   be sentenced to life in prison rather than re-trying the sentencing phase of   
   his previous death penalty trial. This decision was based in large part on   
   conversations that our office has had with the surviving next of kin of both   
   Ms. Hall and Ms. Harr,” Goldberg wrote.   
      
   “This was not an easy decision by any stretch of the imagination,” Goldberg   
   continued. “Solicitor Gipson and I discussed the case at great lengths and   
   he struggled mightily with how to resolve it. In the end, the idea of   
   getting immediate closure for these families, rather than potentially living   
   thru another 18 years of litigation, carried the day.”   
      
   The sentencing will be placed on the record in front of Judge Debra McCaslin   
   on Monday, July 22, at 1 p.m., in Lexington County.   
      
   Out of respect for the family, Gipson told The State Friday that he didn’t   
   think addressing Lott’s comments were “proper” before Monday’s   
   hearing, but   
   that he and Goldberg plan to fully explain their reasoning before McCaslin   
   on Monday.   
      
   When sentenced in 2007, Allen, of Columbia, became the first person in   
   Richland County in 10 years to receive the death penalty. In five other   
   death penalty trials, from 1997 to 2000, defendants received life sentences.   
      
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