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South Carolina executes a man serving death sentences in 2 separate murders
A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s ...
South Carolina executes man serving two death sentences
Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...
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South Carolina executes death row minute over horror kidnap and rape of teen girl
A South Carolina man convicted of the brutal kidnapping and rape of a teenage girl nearly 20 years ago was put to death by ...
From conman to killer: Stephen Stanko's murderous path brings him to death chamber
After he killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, Stanko then drove 25 miles north the Conway home of one of her friends, a 74-year-old man named Henry Lee Turner, a retired Air Force master sergeant and a ...
South Carolina Murderer, Who Strangled Girlfriend in Front of Her Daughter, Dies by Lethal Injection: 'Sorry Is Never Enough'
Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). Stanko had been sentenced ...
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate ask a court to stop his execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...
Clemency petitions for South Carolina’s double murderer given to Gov. McMaster
Amid controversy over South Carolina’s execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life ...