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U.S. Executes Two Inmates as Oklahoma Stay Holds and South Carolina Date Nears

Executions in Alabama, Florida highlight a broader acceleration in U.S. capital punishment since President Trump ordered federal death row resumption.

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The Alabama Department of Corrections’ lethal injection chamber located at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is seen on Monday Oct. 7, 2002.
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Overview

  • Gregory Hunt was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CT on June 10 at Alabama’s William C. Holman Correctional Facility after inhaling pure nitrogen gas in the state’s fifth use of the method.
  • Anthony Wainwright was executed by lethal injection that evening at Florida State Prison in Raiford for the 1994 rape and murder of nursing student Carmen Gayheart.
  • Oklahoma’s planned Thursday execution of John Fitzgerald Hanson was stayed by a district judge over claims of an unfair clemency process, and the state attorney general is appealing the decision.
  • Stephen Stanko is set to die by lethal injection on Friday in South Carolina for the 1997 murder of Laura Ling, becoming the state’s fourth execution of 2025.
  • These developments form part of the highest U.S. execution rate since 2015 and follow President Trump’s directive to resume federal death-row killings, intensifying scrutiny of methods and racial bias concerns.