A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, died by lethal injection at 6:34 p.m. local time on June 13 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly ...

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state ...

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that ...

Stanko’s execution marked the sixth execution in South Carolina in nine months. Stanko reportedly was considering dying by firing squad, but chose lethal injection after concerns that volunteers ...

“There is no evidence that the second dose of pentobarbital used in South Carolina’s lethal injection protocol is administered because the first dose failed. While there may have been some ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled ... evidence there were problems with the state’s lethal injection process.Federal judge Richard Gergel limited ...