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 federal judge indicated June 11 he would reject an emergency stay of execution for convicted murder Stephen Stanko, who 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 ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers ...

Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...