A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

Amid controversy over South Carolina’s execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life ...

MyHorryNews' Managing Editor Tommy Cardinal witnessed the execution of Stephen Stanko, who died by lethal injection on Friday, June 13. In this column, Cardinal explains what the day entailed as he ...

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

Of the tens of thousands of violent crimes that happen each year in South Carolina, only a handful end with life sentences. And it’s even more rare for the death penalty to be sought.

On Thursday, a federal judge denied Stanko’s attorneys’ appeal to delay his execution over concerns of the effectiveness of lethal injection used on previous inmates. Stanko is set to become the sixth ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions. South Carolina uses either lethal injection or the ...

Indiana has exhausted its supply of lethal injection drugs after carrying out two executions in the past six months — and Gov ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning out his bank account.