South Carolina Death Row Inmate Who Committed Gruesome Murder Chooses Method of Execution

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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.

Bryant picked firing squad, which is the state’s newest method of execution.

He is scheduled to be executed on November 14th.

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— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2025

Bryant will be the third criminal to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina this year.

The last convict who was killed using the firing squad suffered from a botched execution that left him suffering for longer than planned.

The New York Post reported:

Bryant will be shot by three volunteers, 15 feet away.

A legal battle is likely following the execution, as attorneys for the most recent man who died by firing squad claimed the executioners nearly missed his heart, causing prolonged suffering.

Witnesses reported several groans from the death row inmate, with it taking more than a minute for him to die, according to the outlet.

Prison officials said executioners only have to hit the heart, and do not have to destroy it.

Since 1977, only three US prisoners—all in Utah—have been executed by firing squad.

This year, 41 men have been executed nationwide, with at least 18 more scheduled, according to the report.

In case you’re wondering exactly what Bryant did to deserve death, he committed an especially gruesome murder back in 2004.

He killed three people.

After taking the life of his final victim, Bryant scrawled a message to police in his blood.

CBS News has more:

Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to die by South Carolina’s newest execution method. His execution is set for Nov. 14.

Bryant is being put to death for killing a man in his home. Investigators said he burned Willard “TJ” Tietjen’s eyes with cigarettes after shooting him and painting “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim’s blood.

Prosecutors said he also shot and killed two other men he was giving rides to as they were relieving themselves on the side of the road during a few weeks that terrorized Sumter County in October 2004.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Bryant’s death sentence…

Bryant admitted to killing Willard “TJ” Tietjen after stopping by his secluded home in rural Sumter County and saying he had car trouble.

Tietjen was shot several times. Candles were lit around his body. Someone took a potholder made by his daughter when she was child, dipped the corner in blood and wrote “victem 4 in 2 weeks. catch me if u can” on the wall, authorities said.

Tietjen’s daughter called him several times, getting more worried when he didn’t answer. On the sixth call, she testified, a strange voice answered and said he had killed Tietjen.

Prosecutors said Bryant also killed two men – one before and one after Tietjen. He gave the men rides and when they got out to urinate on the side of lonely, rural roads, he shot them in the back.

Bryant’s lawyers said he was troubled in the months before the killing, begging a probation agent and his aunt to get him help because he couldn’t stop thinking about being sexually abused by four male relatives when he was a child.

Bryant tried to help himself through the pain by using meth and smoking joints he sprayed with bug killer, his defense attorneys said.

A total of 41 men have died by court-ordered execution in the U.S. this year, and at least 18 more are scheduled to be put to death during the remainder of 2025 and next year.

Bryant’s death will be the 50th execution in South Carolina since the death penalty was reinstated 40 years ago.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, South Carolina currently has 27 inmates on death row. No clemencies have ever been granted in the state.

This monster definitely deserves the firing squad.

Or worse.

South Carolina death row triple killer Stephen Bryant must decide how he will face execution this November.

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— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) October 31, 2025

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