COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A South Carolina man was put to death by lethal injection Friday evening in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was sentenced for two ...

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 ...

Bucky Bruce protests the planned execution by lethal injection of Stephen Stanko outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, June 13, 2025.

South Carolina is set to execute Stephen Stanko, 57, by lethal injection Friday for the 1997 murder of Laura Ling. It will be the state's fourth execution this year and its second using lethal drugs.

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on June 13, according to USA Today, in the most recent execution to take place this year.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

In stark contrast to animal euthanasia, lethal injection for judicial execution was designed and implemented with no clinical or basic research whatsoever.