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South Carolina to carry out third firing-squad execution this year

14.11.2025 16:00 | The Guardian World

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 killing, to be shot dead despite growing backlash to ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina is due to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state will use gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash to the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, was sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to two other murders. Bryant’s lawyers argued that the sentencing judge was unable to consider his brain damage from his mother’s alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, but South Carolina’s supreme court declined to halt the execution on Monday. Continue reading...

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