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 to death for crimes he committed in April 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties, per the statement.

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process.

Stephen Christopher Stanko faced execution in South Carolina. He was convicted for murders and other crimes. The execution happened via lethal injection. This event marks South Carolina's return to capital punishment.

The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly sedative pentobarbital ten minutes into the execution.

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

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko is scheduled scheduled to be ex