US EditionSC Inmate Executed by Lethal Injection for 2 Separate Murders
- Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on June 13 at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
- His execution followed the rejection of last-minute appeals by state and federal courts and Gov. Henry McMaster's refusal to grant clemency.
- Stanko was sentenced to death twice for committing two separate murders in April 2005, which occurred in Horry and Georgetown Counties on consecutive days.
- He strangled his live-in girlfriend, raped and slit the throat of her teenage daughter who survived, then killed 74-year-old Henry Turner by shooting him twice.
- This marked South Carolina’s sixth execution in nine months and renewed debates over the death penalty’s fairness and application.
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The US Sun
The Irish SunDouble murderer executed after final meal of cherry pie and banana pudding
A DOUBLE murderer was executed by injection after a final meal of cherry pie and banana pudding. One of Stephen Stanko’s two death sentences was for killing Henry Turner and emptying his bank account in 2005. Double murdered Stephen Stanko was executed by injection 20 years after his attacksSupplied Hours earlier he had strangled girlfriend Laura Ling in her home. Stanko, 57, also raped and slit the throat of the woman’s teenage daughter, who su…
After about 20 years on death row, the convicted Stephen Stanko is executed in South Carolina. In 2005, the judges found him guilty of double murder. He is said to have killed his girlfriend and another person and raped the victim's daughter.
Steven Stanko was convicted of the 2005 murders of his friend and his partner, as well as the rape and attempted murder of the second victim's teenage daughter.
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