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South Carolina Execution Notice - State v. Stephen Corey Bryant
South Carolina State Supreme Court ^ | 17 October 2025 | SC Supreme Court

Posted on 10/18/2025 12:08:18 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

The Supreme Court of South Carolina The State, Respondent, v. Stephen Corey Bryant, Appellant Appellate Case No. 2008-103130

The Honorable Thomas A. Russo Richland, Sumter County Trial Court Case No. 2004GS4010096, 2006GS4300696, 2006GS4300699

Execution Notice To the honourable Joel E. Anderson, Interim Director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections:

This is to notify you that the sentence of death imposed in the above case from which an appeal has been taken has been affirmed and finally disposed of by the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the remittiur has been sent to the Clark of the Court of General Sessions.

It is, therefore, required of you by Section 17-23-370 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina to execute the judgement and sentence of death imposed on said defendant on the fourth Friday after the service upon your or receipt of this notice.

Let a copy of this notice be served immediately upon the defendant.

Columbia, South Carolina October 17, 2025


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: crime; execution; supremecourt
Stephen Corey Bryant, 44, killed a man, then burned the victim's body with cigarettes, and used the victim's blood to post "catch me if you can" to police in 2004. He was convicted in 2008. Friday, as the official PDF notes, the State Supreme Court posted a Notice of Execution set for November 14.

More: https://www.foxnews.com/us/execution-set-twisted-killer-taunted-police-message-victims-blood-catch-me-u-can

1 posted on 10/18/2025 12:08:18 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

A shame we can’t view our laws finally being carried out after phony appeals and delays by billable hours shysters.

No more public allowed——

“The largest crowd to view an execution in the United States was estimated at 20,000 people for the 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky. This was also the last public execution in the U.S. before laws changed to prohibit public attendance. While it was the largest crowd for a single execution, a mass execution of 38 Dakota men in Minnesota in 1862 drew an estimated 4,000 spectators.”

I admit, one drawback would be like the movie with Susan Hayward I Want To Live and the stupid sob story junk in The Green Mile.

But where is the sympathy for all the victims?


2 posted on 10/18/2025 12:13:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

You never hear about the victims. The only way to find out about them is to do your own research on the internet. But we hear everything about the condemned’s last sumptuous meal.


3 posted on 10/18/2025 12:16:31 PM PDT by Deo volente (In the US in 2024, 25 people were executed total. More children are aborted than that in a half hour)
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To: Deo volente

And what does that tell you?!


4 posted on 10/18/2025 12:17:34 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Deo volente

RE: But we hear everything about the condemned’s last sumptuous meal.

Like the Kurt Vonnegut passage where the criminal condemned to be executed could choose anything he wanted from the menu of the restaurant at the Howard Johnson’s next door.


5 posted on 10/18/2025 12:21:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

In Japan they just get a one or two hour notice. Their family finds out after the fact.


6 posted on 10/18/2025 12:27:21 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“Bryant will have until Oct. 31 to choose if he wants to die by lethal injection, firing squad or in the electric chair. Since the long pause, four inmates have chosen lethal injection and two have died by bullets.”

Let me know what his last meal was.....


7 posted on 10/18/2025 12:33:43 PM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: alternatives?

Six months after the final appeal pending an order from the Minister of Justice. However, the time period excludes requests of retrial or pardons.

Death row is 5-7 years, but many over 10 years.

Japanese announcements are deliberate because of suicides that were taking place when the announcements were made days before. This is why they now do hours before. The 28-day here states that the attorneys get one final hearing. Remember, in 1991 there was an attempt by Donald Henry Gaskins to commit suicide before his execution.


8 posted on 10/18/2025 12:45:32 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

In Japan the uncertainty could last years. They could notify you any time during those years that you will die in less than a couple of hours. That has got to be tougher.


9 posted on 10/18/2025 1:18:16 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“killed a man, then burned the victim’s body with cigarettes”

How about tit for tat for his killer?


10 posted on 10/18/2025 2:28:27 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

The perp will say, “Cruel and unusual punishment,” which some leftist judge will affirm.


11 posted on 10/18/2025 3:58:18 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: frank ballenger

Prisoners rights clash with the majority of socitey.

How long was his rap sheet, and how long did it take to get to an exucution date?


12 posted on 10/19/2025 4:30:29 AM PDT by GailA (STOP COMPLAINING, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR FULL SUPPORT NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS.)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Over 30 in Tennessee.


13 posted on 10/19/2025 4:31:43 AM PDT by GailA (STOP COMPLAINING, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR FULL SUPPORT NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS.)
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