Stephen Stanko, 57, died by lethal injection at 6:34 p.m. local time on June 13 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, a leading figure in mid-1960s European avant-garde jazz who enjoyed a major career resurgence over the past 20 years, died on Sunday in Warsaw. His death was confirmed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that South Carolina is not properly carrying out ...

South Carolina has executed a conman-turned-murderer convicted of killing two people and raping his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter. Stephen Stanko, 57, was executed by lethal injection on Friday, ...

Georgetown, SC (WMBF) - Convicted murderer Stephen Stanko appeared in Georgetown County court on Monday for a post-conviction relief hearing. Stanko was sentenced to death for murdering his former ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to accurately reflect which lawyers Stephen Stanko says was ineffective. Lawyers for notorious killer Stephen Stanko described their efforts to keep him off ...

Homicide charges against a Unity man suspected of killing Cassandra Gross were held for court Friday, despite unsuccessful searches for her body or remains in the last four and a half years since the ...

A SEVEN YEAR PRISON SENTENCE, WHAT KATHE GROSS HOPES MARKS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THOMAS STANKO’S TIME BEHIND BARS. >> THAT’S OFF MY PLATE. THE NEXT THING IS THE MURDER CHARGE. TORI: ON WEDNESDAY THE ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – By most accounts, Stephen Stanko (search) was a highly intelligent, polished ex-convict who didn't mind talking about his life in prison or the book he'd written about it. And it ...

Infamous double-murderer Stephen Stanko was once called a “psychopath” in the same vein as serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Now, a doctor said that was a misdiagnosis. “I just didn’t ...

GREENSBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — Investigators have charged a Westmoreland County man, who is the "person of interest" in the 2018 disappearance of Cassandra Gross, with homicide. Thomas Stanko, 52, of Unity ...