South Carolina has executed a conman-turned-murderer convicted of killing two people and raping his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday, ...

Read full article: Volusia County man arrested after photos showed children with marijuana, gun, deputies say COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko is scheduled scheduled to be executed Friday, ...

A federal judge declined to stop Stephen Stanko’s execution, scheduled for Friday evening. The judge limited arguments to lethal injection, the method Stanko chose over firing squad. Stanko’s lawyers ...

At 6 feet, 3 inches tall, with a shock of dark hair, Stanko was a striking man in his mid-30s. He would brag about being rich, buy drinks for everyone in the bar and hand his phone number out to women ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 the last ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request for more information on the firing squad from an inmate set to die next month over concerns about whether a man ...