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South Carolina man chooses execution by firing squad despite concerns over last death by bullets
Stephen Bryant is the third inmate executed by firing squad in South Carolina this year, marking the state's eighth execution since resuming capital punishment in 2024.
- On Nov. 14, 2025, Stephen Corey Bryant, 44, chose execution by firing squad, which officials say puts South Carolina on track to tie Utah for most gunfire executions in U.S. history.
- Prosecutors say Bryant committed the killings by luring victims, shooting them on rural roads, and writing taunts with blood after pleading guilty to killing three men in Sumter County years ago.
- South Carolina law allows condemned inmates to choose lethal injection, firing squad, or electric chair; Bryant picked three volunteer shooters firing from 15 feet after the state added firing squad due to drug shortages.
- Legal filings say a court fight is likely over the execution timeline in the next two weeks, and if carried out, Bryant's death will be South Carolina's eighth since executions restarted in September 2024.
- Historically, firing-squad deaths have been rare, with Utah last using the method in 2010 and only three other prisoners executed this way since 1977.
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South Carolina Death Row Inmate Who Committed Gruesome Murder Chooses Method of Execution
Stephen Bryant, a death row inmate in South Carolina who was convicted of murder, has just chosen his method of execution. In South Carolina, death row inmates get an option between lethal injection, the electric chair, or firing squad.
South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution after admitting to gruesome murder
Stephen Bryant, 44, will be executed Nov. 14, making him the third man this year to die by South Carolina's newest execution method, according to a report from the Associated Press.
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