Inmate Stephen Stanko was leaning toward a death by firing squad but changed his mind when he couldn't get more details about ...

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state expert dismisses that.

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

An inmate set to be killed this Friday in South Carolina has lost a last-minute fight to pause his execution after a federal judge decided not to halt executions.

A Judge denied Stephen Stanko a delay in his execution. Federal court judge Gergel said one of the reasons for his denial is ...

A federal judge doesn’t plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man’s lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

Gergel’s decision left Stanko’s lawyers to focus on lethal injections. They argued that inmates in the past three lethal injection executions died a lingering death, still conscious as they felt like ...

Twenty-one men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be ...

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 ...

The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly ...