Three executions are scheduled for this Thursday (13) in the United States, in a coincidence of dates that has not occurred for almost 16 years. Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma plan to impose the death penalty by lethal injection on Anthony Darrell Hines, Jeremy Williams and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, respectively.
US may execute 3 prisoners today for the first time in 16 years
Three executions are scheduled for this Thursday (13) in the United States, in a coincidence of dates that has not occurred for almost 16 years. Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma plan to impose the death penalty by lethal injection on...
If all procedures are carried out, it will be the first time since January 7, 2010 that three people will be executed on the same day in the country. On that occasion, convicts were killed in the states of Louisiana, Ohio and Texas.
- A similar situation was predicted for 2018, but only one of the three scheduled executions took place.
- A convict in Texas received a suspended sentence, while in Alabama problems establishing intravenous access prevented the procedure from being completed.
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If all procedures are carried out, it will be the first time since January 7, 2010 that three people will be executed on the same day in the country. On that occasion, convicts were killed in the states of Louisiana, Ohio and Texas.
A similar situation was predicted for 2018, but only one of the three scheduled executions took place. A convict in Texas received a suspended sentence, while in Alabama problems establishing intravenous access prevented the procedure from being completed.
Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the Associated Press that the concentration of three executions on a single date is unusual and attributed the situation mainly to a timing coincidence. According to him, currently a small group of states concentrates the application of capital punishment in the USA.
In 2025, 47 people were executed in 11 states, the highest number recorded since 2009. Florida led the statistics, with 19 cases, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Texas, with five each. Tennessee carried out three executions, while Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona and Indiana recorded two each. Louisiana and Missouri had one.
Before the three executions scheduled for this Thursday, 19 people had been executed in four states throughout 2026. In July, Florida even applied the death penalty to two convicts on the same day.
Anthony Darrell Hines will be executed in Tennessee
In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, was convicted of the death of Catherine Jean Jenkins, 54, in 1985. The victim was working as a chambermaid at a Kingston Springs motel when she was stabbed to death.
Hines received the death penalty in 1986, was later granted a new sentencing hearing and was sentenced to execution again in 1989.
The sentencing comes three months after Tennessee halted its attempt to execute Tony Carruthers. In that case, the responsible team managed to install an intravenous line, but spent more than an hour trying to establish a second access, required by the protocol. Gov. Bill Lee halted the proceedings and granted Carruthers a one-year reprieve.
Hines tried to prevent his own execution by citing health problems, including after-effects from two strokes, and questioned the qualifications of the doctor involved in the previous procedure. Requests to suspend the sentence were not accepted.
Jeremy Williams called for the death sentence to be carried out
In Alabama, 42-year-old Jeremy Williams will undergo lethal injection for the death of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland in 2021.
Williams pleaded guilty to the girl's rape and murder and gave up appeals to try to stop the execution. He himself asked for the death sentence to be carried out.
If the procedure is carried out, it will be Alabama's first execution in 2026. An execution by nitrogen hypoxia scheduled for June was suspended after a federal judge found the method unconstitutional in the case analyzed.
Williams was also accused, in 2022, of the death of his baby daughter, which occurred in Alaska in 2005.
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez will be the third executed in Oklahoma this year
Oklahoma intends to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, convicted of murdering his then partner, Olimpia Fisher, in 2003. If the sentence is applied, he will be the third convict executed by the state this year.
According to the indictment, Fisher, 43, intended to end the relationship when she was shot by Cuesta-Rodriguez in the home where they lived in Oklahoma City. After the first shot, he waited about eight minutes before shooting again and killing her.
The defense asked for the sentence to be replaced by life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and presented information about the convict's mental health history. In July, however, the Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected by a 3-1 vote a recommendation for clemency.
During the hearing, Cuesta-Rodriguez himself stated that he did not want to receive clemency and expressed regret over Fisher's death. The execution remains scheduled for this Thursday.
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