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

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.

Stephen Stanko was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. He was executed for shooting a friend and then cleaning out his bank account in Horry County in 2005. Stanko used his final statement to apologize ...

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

Protesters shielding themselves in the 84-degree heat await the planned execution of Stephen Stanko outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, June 13, 2025.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, double-murderer Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection inside of the state death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South ...

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