The curtain has finally closed on one of South Carolina’s most chilling criminal stories — a man sentenced to death not once, ...

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, 57, was pronounced dead at ...

Serial killer Stephen Stanko was just executed, but the arguments from neuroscience that failed to save him still have force.

Stephen Stanko, the 57-year-old South Carolina man who killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, raped her teen daughter, and then ...

Stanko chowed down on a cherry pie and banana pudding in his last hours, opting for a sweet treat after a hearty meal. The ...