When asked why there was a longer time interval in forwarding Mahdi’s autopsy report, corrections spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said the state does not have a policy that governs when it should release ...

This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, South Carolina, including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

In my undergraduate course, Dangerous Minds, I’d use the case of Stephen Stanko to demonstrate problems with neuroscience experts in court: Brain scans aren’t definitive. Stanko, a serial killer, once ...

South Carolina has executed a conman-turned-murderer convicted of killing two people and raping his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday, ...

South Carolina executed its sixth inmate in nine months on Friday. Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning ...

Moments before a convicted South Carolina killer serving two separate death sentences was put to death by lethal injection Friday night, he used his final words to plead with the family of the victims ...