Overview
- The three executions are scheduled for Thursday in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, creating the first potential triple same-day executions in the U.S. since Jan. 7, 2010.
- Tennessee plans to execute Anthony Darrell Hines after the state supreme court denied a stay and Gov. Bill Lee declined to intervene, with officials under scrutiny after a May execution was halted when staff spent more than an hour trying to place a backup IV line.
- Alabama is set to put Jeremy Williams to death after he asked to drop appeals for his 2021 guilty plea in the rape and murder of a 5-year-old, and the state’s planned use of nitrogen gas was halted by a federal judge in June.
- Oklahoma plans to execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez after the Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-1 against recommending clemency and Cuesta-Rodriguez himself told the board he did not want clemency.
- The cases come as U.S. executions have risen recently, with 47 carried out across 11 states in 2025 and a small group of states accounting for most of the increase, making courts, governors and parole boards the decisive actors in whether more executions proceed.