South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection3. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in ...

Stanko, who is set to die June 13, had a choice among firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair.His lawyers said in previous court filings he didn’t want to suffer what he thought was ...

Stanko's case made national headlines after he fled the crime scenes. He ended up in Augusta mingling with Masters golf fans ...

Stephen Stanko chose lethal injection after concerns that South Carolina's firing squad caused prolonged pain during the state’s last execution. To stream WLTX 19 on your phone, you need the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection. He initially chose firing squad but changed his mind after Mikal Mahdi's April execution.

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as "botched" and raised concerns about execution methods.

A slew of executions nationwide. Stanko would be the sixth inmate executed in South Carolina in nine months. Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial ...

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Stanko, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday for the 2005 murder of 74-year-old Henry Turner, one of two killings for which Stanko has received death sentences.

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...