South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) -- South Carolina currently has 26 inmates on death row, including Stephen Stanko, whose death warrant was issued Friday by the state Supreme Court. Stanko, who is set to be executed on June 13, killed two people in 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties: his girlfriend, 43-year-old Laura Ling of Murrells Inlet, and his friend, 74-year-old Henry Turner of Conway. Stanko would be the sixth inmate killed in South Carolina …

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South Carolina man convicted of murdering 2 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.

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After several legal challenges, delays and pleas to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee for clemency, Oscar Franklin Smith remains scheduled to die by lethal injection on May 22 for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her two sons.

After running out of appeals, SC killer Stephen Stanko's execution date has been set

Stephen Stanko, who killed two people in the Myrtle Beach area, raped a teen and ignited a nationwide manhunt in 2005, is scheduled to be executed June 13.

SC man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date

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.