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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 13 June 2025
1. Mid of woman behind bars with sign that says "NO MORE DEATH ROW!"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, South Carolina Department of Corrections: ++COVERED++
"The capital punishment sentence of Stephen Christopher Stanko was carried out tonight pursuant to the other of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in accordance with state law."
SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Columbia, South Carolina – 2025
3. Mug shot of Stephen Stanko
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbia, South Carolina – 13 June 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, SC Department of Corrections:
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"The execution was performed by lethal injection and began at 6:06 p.m."
5. Tight of state seal on lecturn
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, SC Department of Corrections:
"A second dose of pentobarbitol was administered at 6:20 p.m., and he was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:34 p.m."
7. Wide of protestors with signs
8. Close-up of woman kissing baby’s head
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, SC Department of Corrections:
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"Stanko, 57, was serving two death sentences for crimes committed on April 8, 2005, in Horry and Georgetown Counties."
10. Various of man with sign showing number of executions since 1977
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, SC Department of Corrections:
"Tonight’s execution was for the shooting death and robbery of Henry Lee Turner, 74, of Conway." ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
12. Wide of people praying
13. Close-up of nun
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chrysti Shain, SC Department of Corrections:
"Stanko also was sentenced to death for the strangulation death of Laura Ling and our Merle Inlet and the attempted murder and rape of her daughter."
15. SOuNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
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"Stephen Stanko apologized to his victims. And, but he also asked not to be judged by what he called the worst day of his life."
16. Wide of man through fence praying Rosary
17. Close-up of hands working Rosary beads
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tommy Cardinal, MyHorryNews.com:
"I saw a tear begin to fall down his left cheek, which is, I could only see his left side of his body."
19. Various of protesters and signs
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20. SOuNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press:
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"I mean, he was laying there. There was no real straining. All you saw was just some (blowing), like his lips were moving like that. That was the closest to anything that looked like a strain or any kind of, anything else going on."
21. Wide of people praying at fence in rain
22. Mid of women with umbrellas saying the Lord’s Prayer
STORYLINE:
A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.
Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m.
He was executed for shooting a friend and then cleaning out his bank account in Horry County in 2005.
Stanko also was serving a death sentence for killing his live-in girlfriend, Laura Ling, in her Georgetown County home hours earlier, strangling her as he raped her teenage daughter. Stanko slit the teen’s throat, but she survived.
Stanko appeared to be saying words, turned toward the families of the victims and then let out several quick breaths as his lips quivered.
Also South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster refused clemency in a phone call to prison officials minutes before the execution began.
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