Overview
- Three men — Anthony Darrell Hines in Tennessee, Jeremy Williams in Alabama and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez in Oklahoma — are scheduled for lethal injection on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
- Tennessee has denied Hines’ requests to block his execution after he pointed to May’s aborted execution where officials could not place a required backup IV line, and the governor and state supreme court refused further relief.
- Alabama inmate Jeremy Williams has waived his appeals and asked to have his death sentence carried out for the 2021 rape and murder of a 5-year-old, making a last-minute legal stay less likely.
- Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 3–1 against clemency for Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, who told the board he did not want mercy after the 2003 killing of his girlfriend.
- The cluster underscores a broader trend: a small group of states drove a surge in executions last year and so far in 2026, and recent events — a halted nitrogen-gas plan in Alabama and IV problems in Tennessee — are intensifying legal and procedural scrutiny that could still produce last-minute court or operational changes.