Multiple death sentences in different states are set to be carried out within 24 hours: Not very common
Multiple executions are scheduled in the US in as many states within a 24-hour window this week.Georgia and Texas had each planned to put a man to death within an hour of each other on Wednesday before a court stepped in to halt the one in Georgia for now, while Alabama is set to carry out another execution the following day.Texas remains scheduled to execute LeJames Norman on Wednesday after a Georgia judge stayed Stacey Humphreys’ execution late Tuesday.In the Peach State, 53-year-old Stacey Humphreys was set to be executed on Wednesday for his conviction in the 2003 murders of two real estate agents, 21-year-old Lori Brown and 33-year-old Cindy Williams.But a Cobb County judge stayed his execution late Tuesday, meaning the execution cannot move forward unless the stay is lifted or overturned by a higher court.About an hour after that execution was initially set to happen, Texas scheduled to execute LeJames Norman, 40, for the triple murder of his neighbors during a robbery that turned deadly in 2005.Then on Thursday, Alabama plans to execute Jeffery Lee, 50, for a double murder carried out during a 1998 pawn shop holdup.“It’s not very common to have this many executions just across a couple of days,” Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher told Fox News Digital.“This month, the month of September, we have seven executions scheduled.
Last year in October, we had seven executions in a single month.But before then, we’d have to go back all the way to 2010 to see that number in a single month.”“Just earlier this year, in August, there were three executions on the same day,” she continued.
“This is an unusual year in that we’re seeing occurrences like a number of executions scheduled on the same day or during the same month.But there’s no evidence there’s any coordination among the states to have all these executions occur simultaneously.
This looks largely to be a coincidence.”On Aug.13, three states — Tenne...