Death Row Inmate in South Carolina Resentenced to Life in Prison

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair (R) and a firing squad chair (L). South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP

COLUMBIA, S.C.—A man who spent nearly two decades on South Carolina’s death row for killing two people has been granted life in prison without parole two years after a federal court overturned his original sentence, news outlets report.

A Lexington County judge signed off on the deal for Quincy Allen on Monday.