South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims.

Stephen Bryant, 44, is being put to death for killing a man in his home and writing "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's blood. He is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. ET Friday by firing squad at a Columbia prison.

Lawyers for Bryant made a last-ditch appeal arguing that the judge who sentenced him to die never got to consider how badly his brain was damaged from his mother's alcohol and drug use while pregnant. The U.S. Supreme Court declined in October to review Bryant's death sentence.

Court's decision was unanimous

The South Carolina Supreme Court rejecte

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