3 states carry out executions in a single day, first time since 2010
Tennessee and Oklahoma executed inmates within 30 minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by Alabama later in the day.
On Thursday, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Alabama carried out three executions by lethal injection in a single day, marking the first time since 2010 such a sequence of events had occurred in the United States. In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines was executed for the 1985 murder of a motel maid. Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez for killing his girlfriend in 2003.
Alabama executed Jeremy Williams for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in 2021. These executions reflect a recent trend of increased lethal injections across the U.S., with eleven states conducting a total of 47 executions in 2025, the highest number since 2009.
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