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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jeffrey Collins

Triple murderer to be killed by firing squad after terrorizing town and leaving taunting messages for police in victim’s blood

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. 11, 2008 in Sumter County, S.C. - (Keith Gedamke/The Item via AP)

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 stop the execution of Stephen Bryant, 44, after a last ditch appeal by his lawyers.

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