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

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 ...

Stephen Stanko is serving two death sentences for crimes he committed in April 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties. However, Stanko is specifically being executed for the murder of 74-year-old Henry ...

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 ...

Stephen Stanko, an inmate set to be put to death in June, is seeking secretive details about SC's execution methods following claims of botched executions.

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

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.

The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly ...