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South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date
- South Carolina has set an execution date of June 13, 2025, for Stephen Stanko, a 57-year-old man convicted of murdering two individuals almost 20 years ago.
- Stanko received two death sentences for fatally shooting his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner and killing a woman he lived with, also raping her teenage daughter who survived to testify.
- Hours before the Turner killing, Stanko assaulted his girlfriend and slashed the daughter’s throat; he used a pillow as a silencer when shooting Turner twice after lying about his father’s death.
- Stanko admitted the murders but his defense cited frontal lobe brain damage causing aggression, impulse control issues, and lack of empathy, while his lawyer called him a "psychopath."
- Since executions resumed in South Carolina last September, Stanko is scheduled to be the sixth person put to death in the state; he must select his method of execution—firing squad, lethal injection, or electric chair—by May 30, and may submit final appeals addressing concerns raised following a recent firing squad execution.
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Here's who's on death row in South Carolina
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 …
Another One: Career Criminal with 40 Priors Found, Executed Sleeping Young Woman, According to Police
A heartbreaking story out of South Carolina left one father devastated, trying to handle the reality that his daughter was brutally slain as she slept. WIS-TV reported May 7 that […] The post Another One: Career Criminal with 40 Priors Found, Executed Sleeping Young Woman, According to Police appeared first on The Western Journal.
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