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South Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences

Stephen Stanko, aged 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday at a Columbia prison for killing a friend and related crimes dating back to 2005.
Stanko committed murders in two counties, including shooting Henry Turner twice using a pillow as a silencer and killing his live-in girlfriend after violent assaults.
His execution was the sixth in South Carolina in nine months and followed a federal judge's refusal to halt it despite lawyer claims about lethal injection mishandling.
Stanko apologized in a 3½-minute final statement, asking not to be judged by 'the worst day of his life' before being pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster denied clemency minutes before the execution, continuing a 50-year record of no pardons in the state's 48 executions since reinstatement.

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