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A federal judge doesn’t plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man’s lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process. The federal judge limited arguments in Stephen Stanko’s case to just lethal injection since that’s the method Stanko chose for his death Friday evening. Stanko’s lawyers also wanted to argue about the state’s last execution by firing squad. They say Stanko changed his mind about dying by bullets because of accounts about that execution and autopsy results that showed the firing squad shooters nearly missed the man’s heart.