Stephen Stanko, the 57-year-old South Carolina man who killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, raped her teen daughter, and then killed one of his friends, was executed on Friday, June 13. During his final statement, Stanko apologized to the victims’ families, adding, “Forgiveness will heal them.”
According to a South Carolina Department of Corrections release, Stanko bound, beat, and strangled his girlfriend, Laura Ling, back on April 8, 2005, in Horry County. The South Carolina man also beat and raped the victim’s daughter, who was a minor at the time. The girl had to witness her mother being killed by Stanko.
Additionally, Stanko sliced the minor’s throat, but she managed to survive the attack…