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.

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.

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.

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

A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were problems with the state's lethal injection process.

A death row inmate who survived his execution has revealed what it felt like during the failed attempt. Thomas Creech, 74, has been in prison in Idaho for five decades after committing two murders in 1974. He later went on to kill again - a fellow inmate - in 1981.

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

An Oklahoma judge granted a temporary stay of execution Monday to a man whose transfer to death row was expedited by the Trump administration and who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday.

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