Stanko's case made national headlines after he fled the crime scenes. He ended up in Augusta mingling with Masters golf fans and wooing another woman.

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). Stanko had been sentenced to death for crimes he committed in April 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties, per the statement.

Death row inmate Stephen Stanko was executed by lethal injection. He initially chose firing squad but changed his mind after Mikal Mahdi's April execution.

Stephen Christopher Stanko faced execution in South Carolina. He was convicted for murders and other crimes. The execution happened via lethal injection. This event marks South Carolina's return to capital punishment.

After he killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, Stanko then drove 25 miles north the Conway home of one of her friends, a 74-year-old man named Henry Lee Turner, a retired Air Force master sergeant and a father of three. He fatally shot Turner, whose body was found about 24 hours later, and stole his truck.

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