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 ...

Stephen Stanko is escorted out of the Law Enforcement Center in Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, April 13, 2005, after he was arrested in a nationwide manhunt. File/Chris Thelen of The Augusta Chronicle/AP ...

Stephen Stanko chose lethal injection for his June 13 execution in South Carolina after concerns over pain during a recent firing squad execution emerged.

South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection on June 13. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in April 2005, and also sexually assaulted his girlfriend's daughter.

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.

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 ...

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.

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Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial hearing at the Georgetown County Courthouse in Georgetown, S.C., Monday, July 31, 2006. Credit: AP/TOM MURRAY ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of ...