The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections’ Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that made death by firing squad an option. The electric chair is under the cover. (Provided by the S.C. Department of Corrections)
COLUMBIA — A death row inmate who killed three people in South Carolina during a crime spree 21 years ago has reached the end of his appeals process and can receive an execution warrant, according to a Tuesday letter from the state attorney general’s office.
Stephen Bryant, 44, pleaded guilty in 2008 to murder, burglary, arson, and assault and battery with the intent to kill, all during an eight-day crime spree in 2004…