Stanko was convicted of strangling his girlfriend in front of her daughter before shooting and killing a friend in April 2005 A man convicted of two murders was executed in South Carolina by lethal ...

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, was pronounced dead at ...

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko has been put to death by lethal injection. His execution is the 6th since the death chamber opened again last September after a more than decade-long pause. Prison ...

South Carolina executed its sixth inmate in nine months on Friday. Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning ...