COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim’s blood chose Friday to die by firing squad.

Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to die by South Carolina’s newest execution method. His execution is set for Nov. 14.

Bryant is being put to death for killing a man in his home. Investigators said he burned Willard “TJ” Tietjen’s eyes with cigarettes after shooting him and painting “catch me if u can” on the wall with the victim’s blood.

Prosecutors said he also shot and killed two other men he was giving rides to as they were reliving themselves on the side of the road during a few weeks that terrorized Sumter County in October 2004.

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