Three men are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma, a rare occurrence of multiple executions taking place on the same day in the United States.
In Tennessee, Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, is set to be executed for the 1985 murder of motel maid Catherine Jean Jenkins. Hines stabbed Jenkins, 54, to death in Kingston Springs. He was sentenced to death in 1986 and again in 1989 after a sentencing hearing appeal. Hines had appealed to the governor and courts, citing concerns about the qualifications of the doctor who oversaw a previous botched execution attempt in May and his own medical condition of thinness and muscular atrophy due to two strokes, which he argued could complicate IV insertion. The state has not confirmed if the same doctor will preside over Hines' execution. The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Hines had not proven the doctor was unqualified, suggesting the previous issues were an isolated incident.
Alabama plans to execute Jeremy Williams, 42, for the 2021 rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland. Williams pleaded guilty to the charges and waived his right to appeal, requesting his death sentence be carried out. Prosecutors stated Williams raped and strangled Holland after paying her mother $2,500 to abuse the child, and that he filmed the attack and kept the girl's body for further abuse. Williams was also a suspect in the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska, though charges were not filed until 2022. Kamarie's mother is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. This would be Alabama's first execution of the year, following a halted nitrogen gas execution in June.
In Oklahoma, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, is scheduled for lethal injection for the 2003 fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Olimpia Fisher, in their Oklahoma City home. Fisher, 43, was shot in one eye as she planned to leave Cuesta-Rodriguez, and then shot again in the other eye after he waited for her to scream for help. Cuesta-Rodriguez expressed regret for the killing and did not request clemency from the state's Pardon and Parole Board. His attorneys cited a difficult childhood in Cuba and claimed brain damage, PTSD, and major depression with psychotic episodes as mitigating factors. The board voted 3-1 against recommending clemency last month.
If all three executions proceed, it would mark the first time since January 7, 2010, that three inmates were put to death on the same day. In 2010, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas carried out executions simultaneously. A similar triple execution was scheduled in 2018, but only one was completed after a reprieve was granted in Texas and issues arose with an IV line in Alabama. In 2025, 11 states carried out executions. Florida executed two men on the same day in July of that year and has conducted 31 executions since the start of 2025.