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 ...

Federal judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko's case to just lethal injection because that is the method the condemned inmate chose for his death Friday evening.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, double-murderer Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection inside of the state death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South ...

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.

Stanko was executed by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Facility Institution in Columbia. The process began at 6:06 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m.

Stanko received a lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia and was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. His lengthy final words were read by his attorneys. They read in part: ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Horry County’s chief prosecutor was among a handful of people in attendance for the June 13 execution of double murderer Stephen Stanko, he revealed this week ...