Three men in three different states are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday in an unusual same-day cluster of executions across the U.S.Tennessee is set to execute Anthony Darrell Hines for the murder of a motel maid, while Alabama plans to put Jeremy Williams to death for raping and killing a 5-year-old girl after paying her mother $2,500 to let the child perform a sexual act.Oklahoma is also scheduled to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez for killing his girlfriend.The Associated Press reported that three states last carried out executions on a single day on Jan.
7, 2010, when prisoners were put to death in Louisiana, Ohio and Texas.TWO FLORIDA INMATES DIE IN RARE DOUBLE EXECUTION AFTER SCOTUS DENIES STAYSThree executions were also set to happen on the same day in 2018, though only one took place after Alabama officials struggled to place an IV line and Texas granted a reprieve.In this photo released 02 February by the Texas Department of Corrections, is the gurney used to execute prisoners by lethal injection; called the Death Chamber, the gurney is housed in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.(Texas Department of Corrections//AFP via Getty Images)Florida executed two men in one day in July, bringing its total number of executions since the beginning of 2025 to 31.Eleven states carried out executions last year.
If Tennessee and Alabama proceed Thursday, six states will have put prisoners to death in 2026.Hines, 66, is set to die for the 1985 killing of Catherine Jean Jenkins, a 54-year-old motel maid in Kingston Springs.Prosecutors said Hines stabbed Jenkins while she was at work.JUDGE BLOCKS ALABAMAS NITROGEN GAS EXECUTION METHOD, RUES IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY CRUELTennessee death row inmate Anthony Darrell Hines is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 1985 killing of motel maid Catherine Jean Jenkins.
(TDOC Communications via AP)He was first sentenced to death in 1986, won a new sentencing hearing on appeal and was sentenced to d...