Bryan was convicted and sentenced to death for the August 1983 murder of George Wilson, whom he had kidnaped near Pascagoula and later killed in a rural area in Santa Rosa County, Fla. He is scheduled for execution at 7 a.m. October 27. He is challenging the validity of his sentence based on several grounds, including the way the electric chair functions and alleged impairment of his attorney at trial due to abuse of alcohol.