Stanko, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday for the 2005 murder of 74-year-old Henry Turner, one of two killings for which Stanko has received death sentences.

Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial hearing at the Georgetown County Courthouse in Georgetown, S.C., Monday, July 31, 2006. Credit: AP/TOM MURRAY ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...

South Carolina has executed Stephen Stanko, the sixth inmate to be put to death by the state since executions resumed nine months ago. Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday, June ...

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko has been put to death by lethal injection. His execution is the 6th since the death chamber opened again last September after a more than decade-long pause.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, double-murderer Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection inside of the state death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South ...

A man convicted of two murders was executed in South Carolina by lethal injection. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

Federal judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko's case to just lethal injection because that is the method the condemned inmate chose for his death Friday evening.

Federal judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko’s case to just lethal injection since that’s the method the condemned inmate chose for his death Friday evening.