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Stephen Stanko, who killed 2 and raped his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter, is executed
Stanko's case made national headlines after he fled the crime scenes. He ended up in Augusta mingling with Masters golf fans ...
4 executions are scheduled in 4 different states this week, amid an uptick nationwide
While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present an overall ...
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Stanko is executed after clemency is denied
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. The South ...
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Prayer vigil planned as South Carolina prepares to execute Stephen Stanko Friday
A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen ...
Horry County man begs courts to delay his execution; state wants to push forward with it
A man set to be executed Friday is asking for a delay. State attorneys disagree and have asked federal courts to continue. According to United States District Court documents, attorneys representing ...
From conman to killer: Stephen Stanko's murderous path brings him to death chamber
After he killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, Stanko then drove 25 miles north the Conway home of one of her friends, a 74-year-old man named Henry Lee Turner, a retired Air Force master sergeant and a ...