Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A federal judge will likely decide early next week whether the state can move forward with the execution of Richard Gerald Jordan. The state’s longest-serving death row inmate is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 25.

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 they didn't have evidence there were problems with the state's lethal injection process.

As SC prepares to execute a man by lethal injection, a review of 43 autopsies shows prisoners' lungs full of fluid. A state expert dismisses that.

Mississippi Department of Corrections protocol requires execution staff to ensure that inmates are completely unconscious before proceeding with the lethal drugs. The “proposed consciousness check” is a mandated wait time of three minutes between administering the sedative and the lethal drugs.

South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating after a late-night crash on I-20 in Kershaw County resulted in the death of two people.

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A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate said he will decide Monday whether to delay Richard Jordan’s execution. The 79- year-old death row inmate’s defense argues that the set method of execution

Richard Jordan, who is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi on June 25 argues against lethal-injection drug combination in federal court.