Stanko is set to be executed at 6 p.m. ET at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. If it moves forward, it will be the third execution in South Carolina this year.

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 ...

Stanko received an execution order on May 9, days after the U.S. Supreme Court closed the door on his main avenue of appeals. He had a pending appeal on Ling's murder case, which is now moot.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Billings resident Rudolph "Rudy" Stanko, a felon with a lengthy history of tangling with law enforcement and the justice system, back to prison for 13 months ...

A judge denied Stephen Stanko's request to delay his execution, which is scheduled in two days. Stanko's attorneys argued for a pause on executions pending a Department of Corrections ...

Stanko became the 23rd inmate put to death in the U.S. this year and the third in South Carolina. He was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. While prosecutors painted Stanko as a cold, calculated ...