Facts of the Crime:
A Moore County jury handed up four death sentences in September 2007 in the trial of a man found guilty of killing four people in a December 2003 robbery. The jury took about four hours to decide the punishment of Mario Lynn Phillips who was the first of three people to go to trial for the quadruple homicide. Eddie Ryals, 21, Carl Garrison Justice, 18, and Harvey Darrell Hobson, 20, all of Carthage, and Joseph Allen Harden, 19, of Vass, were killed on December 19, 2003, in a mobile home on Heron Road, east of Carthage. All four had been shot and stabbed in what authorities said was a robbery. They said the three suspects made off with $170.
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