South Carolina prepares for its 6th execution in 9 months with a man serving 2 death sentences
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FILE - Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial hearing at the Georgetown County Courthouse in Georgetown, S.C., Monday, July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Tom Murray, Pool, File)Protesters shielding themselves in the 84-degree heat await the planned execution of Stephen Stanko outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., on Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)A man prays the Rosary outside the gates of the Broad River Road Correctional Facility in Columbia, S.C., before the scheduled execution of Stephen Stanko on Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)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. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)This booking photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Stephen Stanko. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
FILE - Defense attorney Gerald Kelly confers with defendant Stephen Stanko during a pretrial hearing at the Georgetown County Courthouse in Georgetown, S.C., Monday, July 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Tom Murray, Pool, File)
