Three men will be executed on the same day as death penalties rise in US
L-R: Anthony Darrell Hines, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez and Jeremy Williams are all set to be put to death on the same day It's been 16 years since three people were executed on the same day in the US, but later on Thursday, three men convicted of murder in different US states will all face the death penalty. The planned executions of inmates Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, Jeremy Williams, 41, and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 71, in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, respectively, are indicative of a steep rise in executions across the US. Last year, in 2025, there were more than four times as many people put to death as there were in 2021, even as juries, and the American public at large, became increasingly wary of its use. So what's driving the increase and are the US public in step with the trend? In 2020, during his first term, he ended a nearly two-decade moratorium on the federal death penalty, by ordering 13 executions over a six month period.
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An estimated 3% of US executions rom 1890 to 2010 were botched, according to DPI, with lethal injection having the highest rate of botched executions. Trump's executive order also encouraged states to seek the death penalty for every federal crime when a law enforcement officer is killed, and instructed the attorney general to ensure that states have an ample supply of drugs for lethal injections, facilitating the states' ability to carry out capital punishment.
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L-R: Anthony Darrell Hines, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez and Jeremy Williams are all set to be put to death on the same day It's been 16 years since three people were executed on the same day in the US, but later on Thursday, three men convicted of murder in different US states will all face the death penalty. The planned executions of inmates Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, Jeremy Williams, 41, and Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 71, in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, respectively, are indicative of a steep rise in executions across the US. Last year, in 2025, there were more than four times as many people put to death as there were in 2021, even as juries, and the American public at large, became increasingly wary of its use. So what's driving the increase and are the US public in step with the trend? In 2020, during his first term, he ended a nearly two-decade moratorium on the federal death penalty, by ordering 13 executions over a six month period.
