Quincy Jovan Allen (born November 7, 1979)[1] is an American serial killer who killed four people between July and August in a crime spree in 2002.
On the morning of December 2, 2009, Allen, along with fellow death row inmate Mikal Deen Mahdi (born March 20, 1983),[1] a Lawrenceville, Virginia man on death row for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Captain James Myers, 56, in Calhoun County, South Carolina,[5] planned to attack and kill a correctional officer while in the Lieber Correctional Institution.
After making shivs using metal they stripped from air ducts, the duo asked the correctional officer Nathan Sasser if they could go visit the basketball court.
[7] Following this incident, both were stripped of their privileges (outside recreation, visitation, phone use, and canteen items) and in 2017, both were transferred along with all other South Carolina death row inmates to the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia.
[2][9] However, a stay of execution was filed by his attorneys hours after the verdict was announced, with the South Carolina Supreme Court accepting the motion.