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(10:22am) Stanko faces second death penalty trial
Posted: 09.30.2009 at 10:22 AM
Joel Allen

Joel brings more than 20 years experience to WPDE NewsChannel 15.

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A Georgetown county man who's already on death row for killing his girlfriend is facing a second death penalty trial.

Stephen Stanko will go on trial November 9th for the murder of 74-year-old Henry Lee Turner of Conway.

Turner was found shot to death at his home on April 8, 2005.

15th Circuit Solicitor Greg Hembree says he will seek a second death sentence for Stanko if he is convicted.

Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend, Laura Ling, and raping her daughter on the same day. NewsChannel 15 normally does not disclose the identity of a sexual assault victim, but Ling's daughter has since gone public with her ordeal.

Stanko is being held on death row in Ridgeville.

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