A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders on the same day has been put to death by lethal injection ...

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 ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly ...

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state ...

Amid controversy over South Carolina’s execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that ...

“There is no evidence that the second dose of pentobarbital used in South Carolina’s lethal injection protocol is administered because the first dose failed. While there may have been some ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, died by lethal injection at 6:34 p.m. local time on June 13 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled ... evidence there were problems with the state’s lethal injection process.Federal judge Richard Gergel limited ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn't plan to stop the execution because they didn't have evidence there were problems ...