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Stanko had originally elected to die by firing squad, which the South Carolina legislature in 2021 had authorized for use in executions, alongside the electric chair and lethal injection.

COLUMBIA — 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 ...

South Carolina Murderer, Who Strangled Girlfriend in Front of Her Daughter, Dies by Lethal Injection: 'Sorry Is Never Enough' Stephen Stanko, 57, died by lethal injection at 6:34 p.m. local time ...

Stanko is the sixth inmate executed in South Carolina in nine months after the state went 13 years without putting an inmate to death because it could not obtain lethal injection drugs.

Dig deeper: Stanko was leaning toward dying by South Carolina’s new firing squad, like the past two inmates before him. But after autopsy results from the last inmate killed by that method showed the ...

The Brief 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 ...