A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning out his bank account.

South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection3. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in April 2005, and also sexually assaulted his girlfriend's daughter.