Oklahoma man put to death in first of three US executions scheduled on same day
If all executions go ahead, it will be first time in over 15 years there have been over three judicial killings in US in one day Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez has been put to death by the state of Oklahoma, in the first of three executions scheduled for Thursday in a rare triple procedure that underlines the renewed appetite in the US for state killings. Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, was pronounced dead at…
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, a 70-year-old Oklahoma man, was executed on Thursday by the state of Oklahoma, marking the first of three US executions scheduled for that day. The execution came just one hour after Darrell Hines, a 66-year-old man from Tennessee, was put to death for the 1985 murder of a motel maid and mother of four, Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins.
The third execution, scheduled for the same day in Alabama, involved Jeremy Williams, a 42-year-old man who raped and murdered a five-year-old girl in Georgia in 2021.
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