Three States Set to Carry Out Executions on the Same Day
Three men are scheduled for lethal injection on the same day in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma, marking a rare multi-state execution event.
In a rare convergence of capital punishment, three states are scheduled to carry out lethal injections on the same day. Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma each have executions planned for Thursday, a scenario that has not occurred in the United States since 2010.
The last time three executions were held on a single day was in January 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas put inmates to death. A similar triple-scheduling in 2018 fell apart when one inmate received a reprieve and another state faced technical difficulties.
In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines is set to die for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, a 54-year-old motel maid in Kingston Springs. Hines, now 66, was initially sentenced to death in 1986, won a new sentencing hearing, and was again condemned in 1989. His execution comes just months after the state aborted another lethal injection due to problems inserting an IV line. Hines has argued that his thinness and muscular atrophy from strokes could cause similar complications, but the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled he had not proven the presiding doctor was unqualified.
Alabama is scheduled to execute Jeremy Williams for the 2021 rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland. Williams pleaded guilty and dropped all appeals, asking for his sentence to be carried out. Prosecutors said he paid the girl's mother $2,500 for the child to perform a sex act, then raped and strangled her, filming the attack. The girl's mother is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking. This would be Alabama's first execution of the year, following a halt on nitrogen gas executions in June.
In Oklahoma, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, is scheduled to die for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend, Olimpia Fisher. Fisher had planned to leave him when he shot her in one eye, waited about eight minutes as she screamed, then fired a fatal shot into her other eye. The state's Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 against recommending clemency. His attorneys had cited a difficult childhood in Cuba and mental health issues, but Cuesta-Rodriguez expressed regret and did not seek clemency.
Eleven states carried out executions in 2025. If Thursday's scheduled executions in Tennessee and Alabama proceed, six states will have conducted executions in 2026.