US EditionSouth Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date
- South Carolina scheduled Stephen Stanko, 57, for execution on June 13 for killing his friend Henry Turner in Horry County in 2006.
- Stanko was sentenced to death twice for murdering a woman he lived with in Georgetown County and sexually assaulting her teenage daughter, who survived and later testified against him.
- Shortly before murdering Turner, Stanko assaulted his girlfriend and viciously attacked the teenager, slashing her throat; he later shot Turner twice using a pillow to muffle the gunshots, then took Turner's truck and emptied his bank account.
- Stanko admitted the killings, while his lawyer called him a 'psychopath' and cited frontal lobe problems causing aggression and lack of impulse control and empathy.
- Stanko may choose lethal injection, firing squad, or electric chair by May 30 and will be South Carolina’s sixth execution since a 13-year pause ended in September 2024.
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South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant against Stephen Stanko for the Horry County shooting death of a friend. Stanko is also on death row for killing a women he was living with in Georgetown County and raping her teenage daughter. Stanko is the first person whose death …
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