US EditionSouth Carolina man executed by firing squad
Stephen Bryant, convicted for a 2004 five-day crime spree killing three men, was the fifth South Carolina inmate executed in 2025 amid ongoing debate over execution methods.
- A 44-year-old man, Stephen Corey Bryant, was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on November 14 for killing two strangers and an acquaintance in 2004.
- Bryant chose to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection, becoming the third inmate in South Carolina to be executed this way.
- Bryant was sentenced to death for fatally shooting 62-year-old Willard Tietjen nine times during a 2004 crime spree and was also given two life sentences for killing two other men.
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A man sentenced to the death penalty for three murders in 2004 was executed on Friday by a firing squad in South Carolina, southeast of the United States. Stephen Bryant, 44, pleaded guilty to the murder of three people in 2004, writing the message "catch me if you can" with the blood of one of his victims. It is the 43rd execution in the United States in 2025, thus equaling the 2012 record. Three more executions are scheduled before the end of …
‘Catch me if you can’ convict, who killed three victims in 2004, executed in South Carolina by firing squad officials
Stephen Bryant was convicted of killing three people during a crime spree in 2004, and pleaded guilty of the murders committed over five days in a rural area of the state.
Stephen Bryant chose to be shot instead of lethal injection or electric chair, being the third person to die by this method in the state
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