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Three US states execute inmates on same day for first time since 2010
Three US states execute inmates on same day for first time since 2010
Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama executed three inmates on Thursday, the first time in nearly 16 years that three people have been put to death on the same day in the United States.…
The Story in Brief
Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama executed three inmates on Thursday, the first time in nearly 16 years that three people have been put to death on the same day in the United States. Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, Anthony Darrell Hines and Jeremy Williams were all killed by lethal injection hours apart. Eleven states executed a total of 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009. Florida accounted for 19 of those. So far in 2026, 22 inmates have been executed across five states, the Hindustan Times reports.
Tennessee executed Hines, 66, for the 1985 stabbing of motel maid Catherine Jean Jenkins. His execution went ahead despite problems with an IV line during a previous lethal injection in the state. Alabama executed Williams, 42, for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl; he had asked to be put to death. Oklahoma executed Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend. He told the parole board he deserved punishment.
The Indian Opinion
The standard American narrative around capital punishment tends to fall into two camps: righteous vengeance or outright abolition. Neither fits these three cases neatly. One inmate waived appeals and asked to die. Another claimed innocence but was executed despite a recent botched IV attempt in the same state. A third said he deserved his punishment. The real story is the shrinking geography of the death penalty, five states drive almost all executions, and its accelerating pace. The test to watch is not moral but mechanical: can Tennessee reliably insert an IV line? That single procedure, not philosophy, will decide lives.
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