FILE - Stephen Corey Bryant is led to a Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center van after 12th Circuit Judge Thomas A. Russo gave him the death penalty for the murder of William Tietjen, Thursday, Sept.

A man who killed three people and left taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims is set to be put to death by firing squad Friday. South Carolina's highest court has declined to ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Stephen Corey Bryant, 44, was executed by firing squad Friday, becoming the third person put to death by that method in South Carolina this year, according to the Associated ...

A South Carolina killer who taunted police by writing a message in blood after killing three men in a week has become the third inmate executed by firing squad in the state this year. Stephen Corey ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a man on South Carolina's death row are trying to stop his execution later this month by arguing the judge who sentenced him to die never got to consider how badly ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in ...

Stephen Corey Bryant pleaded guilty to three murder charges Monday afternoon, according to the Solicitor's Office. In 2004, Sumter County deputies discovered the bodies of a 36-year-old man found dead ...