Overview
- Bryant, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. ET at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia with no appeals pending, and clemency remains possible though South Carolina governors have not granted it in the modern era.
- It would be the state’s third firing-squad execution this year as South Carolina restarted executions after a 13-year pause linked to lethal-injection drug shortages.
- Under the protocol, Bryant will be strapped to a chair with a hood placed over his head while three volunteer prison employees fire at a target over his heart from about 15 feet away.
- Bryant pleaded guilty to a 2004 spree that left three men dead and one critically wounded, receiving a death sentence for the murder of Willard “T. J.” Tietjen and life terms for the other killings.
- Attorneys continue to challenge the method after alleging a prior firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi was botched, a claim corrections officials deny.