US EditionSouth Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences
- Stephen Stanko, a 57-year-old South Carolina man, was executed by lethal injection on June 14, 2025, at a Columbia prison for a 2005 murder.
- Stanko killed his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner by shooting him twice using a pillow as a silencer after lying about his father's death.
- Earlier the same day, Stanko strangled his live-in girlfriend, raped her teenage daughter, and slashed the daughter's throat, who survived and later testified.
- Stanko apologized in his final statement asking not to be judged by his worst day, and Governor Henry McMaster refused clemency minutes before the execution began.
- Stanko’s execution was South Carolina's sixth in nine months, highlighting ongoing debates over lethal injection's humaneness amid new firing squad options.
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