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

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, 57, 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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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. Stephen Stanko, 57, ...

Stephen Stanko, 57, 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.