HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Horry County’s chief prosecutor was among a handful of people in attendance for the June 13 execution of double murderer Stephen Stanko, he revealed this week ...

The judge denied a delay because he said Stanko's legal team had no evidence that the way lethal injection has been carried out in the state so far has been cruel and unusual.

Bucky Bruce protests the planned execution by lethal injection of Stephen Stanko outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, June 13, 2025.

Thus the conventional view of lethal injection leading to an invariably peaceful and painless death is questionable.

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to death for the murders of his girlfriend, Laura Ling, and his 74-year-old friend Henry Turner in April, 2005.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

Three lethal injection protocols have been used in North Carolina from the first execution in 1984 to the most recent at the time of this writing in August 2006 (Figure 1A).

Gov. Mike Braun confirmed this week that Indiana spent more than $1 million in taxpayer funds to buy four doses of execution drugs – some that were used and others ...