A South Carolina death row inmate who fatally shot three men, burning one victim’s eyes and writing a message in the victim’s blood, died by firing squad Friday. Stephen Bryant, 44, was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.

A man with a stethoscope and blue latex gloves entered the room, and for a minute he bent over Bryant, putting the stethoscope to different parts of his chest. At 6:05 a prison official declared that Bryant was dead and the curtain slid shut.

Stephen Bryant became only the third person to die by firing squad in the state of South Carolina this year — as the lethal injection or the electric chair are often preferred