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Death row in Trump’s America: Four executions in four days
If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...
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Prayer vigil planned as South Carolina prepares to execute Stephen Stanko Friday
A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen ...
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Column: Inside the death chamber — A witness account of a SC execution
MyHorryNews' Managing Editor Tommy Cardinal witnessed the execution of Stephen Stanko, who died by lethal injection on Friday, June 13. In this column, Cardinal explains what the day entailed as he ...
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Anti-death penalty advocates make plea to governor as 6th inmate in 9 months faces execution
On Thursday, a federal judge denied Stanko’s attorneys’ appeal to delay his execution over concerns of the effectiveness of lethal injection used on previous inmates. Stanko is set to become the sixth ...
SC executioners use twice the dose of lethal drug than previously reported
The South Carolina Department of Correction’s secret lethal injection protocols call for a second, massive dose of deadly ...
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Twenty-one men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the remainder of 2025.