US EditionSouth Carolina executes a man serving death sentences in 2 separate murders
- Stephen Stanko, aged 57, was put to death by lethal injection on June 13 for two murders he committed in 2005 in South Carolina.
- Stanko killed his girlfriend Laura Ling by binding, beating, and strangling her and assaulted her teenage daughter before also killing a friend, Henry Lee Turner, in Georgetown County.
- He was sentenced to death in August 2006 for Ling's death and received a second death sentence in November 2009 for Turner's murder after being arrested days later in Georgia.
- In his final remarks, Stanko repeatedly expressed remorse to the victims' families, reflecting on the many days of his life but acknowledging that he is remembered for the single day of the crime, and he wished that forgiveness might bring them healing.
- Approximately 28 minutes after the start of the execution, he was declared deceased, marking the sixth time South Carolina carried out a death sentence in a nine-month span following a 13-year hiatus caused by shortages of lethal injection drugs.
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South Carolina Murderer, Who Strangled Girlfriend in Front of Her Daughter, Dies by Lethal Injection: 'Sorry Is Never Enough'
South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection on June 13. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in April 2005, and also sexually assaulted his girlfriend's daughter.
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South Carolina executes a man serving death sentences in 2 separate murders
A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.
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