South Carolina Supreme Court rejects inmate’s request for more firing squad details
‘Stephen Stanko is just plain evil. He has in his core down deep inside something that makes him evil. He’s a bad man, he knows it, and he likes it.’
‘Stephen Stanko is just plain evil. He has in his core down deep inside something that makes him evil. He’s a bad man, he knows it, and he likes it.’
The latest inmate to be executed by firing squad likely was aware and in extreme pain for 30 seconds to a minute.
The firing squad is an execution method with a long and violent history around the world.
No South Carolina Governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions carried out in the state since the death penalty resumed in the U.S. in 1976.