Executions Three In One Day
Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada speaks at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution after the execution of Anthony Darrell Hines Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn.
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Alabama man put to death for the murder of a 5-year-old girl in last of three US executions in a day
Tennessee and Oklahoma have put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other and Alabama followed suit hours later as U.S. states executed three men in one day. It was the first time in nearly 16 years that three executions were carried out in the U.S. on the same day. Tennessee executed Anthony Darrell Hines on Thursday for the 1985 stabbing death of a hotel maid. In Oklahoma, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez was executed for killing his girlfriend. And Alabama executed Jeremy Williams, who dropped appeals after pleading guilty to the 2021 rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl. The last time three executions took place on the same day was in 2010.
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