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A South Carolina man on death row is scheduled to be executed next month for killing a man, burning his eyes with cigarettes and taunting police by painting "catch me if u can" on a wall with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago.

Stephen Bryant, 44, will be put to death Nov. 14 after the state Supreme Court issued the death warrant Friday, rejecting a request from Bryant's lawyers for a delay because they work with the federal court system and the U.S. government is shut down.

Bryant is scheduled for execution for one killing, but prosecutors said he also fatally shot two other men he was giving rides to as they were urinating on the side of the road in Sumter County in October 2004.

He will have until Oct. 31 to cho

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