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

Stanko's case made national headlines after he fled the crime scenes. He ended up in Augusta mingling with Masters golf fans ...

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

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 ...

When the newly elected Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the crowd, liturgical ...

Stephen Christopher Stanko faced execution in South Carolina. He was convicted for murders and other crimes. The execution ...

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

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers ...

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

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die Friday by lethal injection in the state's sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). Stanko had been sentenced ...