3 states are set to hold executions on the same day, a first in the US since 2010
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates Thursday in what would be the first time in nearly 16 years that three people are put to death on the same day in the United States. The executions come as a small number of states, including the three with scheduled lethal injections Thursday, drive execution numbers in the United States. Please check your inbox to confirm. "You look at the country as a whole, you've just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty, executing people, and a small number of states that are still imposing new death sentences," said Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Maher said it is highly unusual to have three executions on one day, although it is largely a scheduling coincidence. Eleven states executed a total of 47 people in 2025, the highest number since 2009.
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About 10% of executed inmates are so-called volunteers who drop appeals, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, but most of those have been on death row longer. In 2022, Williams also was charged with the 2005 death of his infant daughter in Alaska. "This man left a trail of destruction of children," Russell County District Attorney Richard Chancey said.
