Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that South Carolina is not properly ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that ...

COLUMBIA — Stephen Stanko’s attorneys are seeking to delay his execution, arguing the S.C. Department of Corrections cannot lawfully put the convicted killer to death using available methods ...

A South Carolina man set to be executed Friday is filing a federal lawsuit over the state’s execution practices.

The most serious accusations in Stanko's lawsuit come from Dr. Jonathan Groner, an expert in lethal injection and other capital punishments and a surgeon who teaches at Ohio State University.

Stanko, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday for the 2005 murder of 74-year-old Henry Turner, one of two killings for which Stanko has received death sentences.

Stanko’s lawsuit relies on various experts’ analysis of Mahdi’s death, including a trauma surgeon and expert on firing squads, Jonathan Groner.