‘Catch me if you can’ killer executed by firing squad in South Carolina

Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed by firing squad at a prison in Columbia on Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections said. He pleaded guilty to three murders committed during a 2004 crime spree in which he killed three people and scrawled the message "catch me if u can" in the blood of one victim. Bryant was shot by a three-person firing squad of volunteers and was pronounced dead at 6:05 pm (2305 GMT). South Carolina executed three convicted murderers by firing squad this year, the first such executions in the United States in 15 years, AP reported. Since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the vast majority of executions in the country were conducted by lethal injection. A man convicted of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl was executed by let