Two down, one pending as US marks rare triple-day of executions
TL;DR
Oklahoma executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, for murdering his common-law wife, and Tennessee followed an hour later with Darrell Hines, 66, for a 1985 murder. A third Alabama execution, Jeremy Williams, 42, who raped and killed a five-year-old, was scheduled but not carried out. If all three proceed, it would be the first three-execution day in the US in more than 15 years, signaling renewed appetite for capital punishment; all three were to be by lethal injection, though Alabama’s nitrogen-gas method was halted by a federal judge, and last year’s total was driven in large part by Florida’s activity.
- Oklahoma man put to death in first of three US executions scheduled on same day The Guardian
- Three men will be executed the same day as US sees steep rise in death penalty BBC
- Three States to Execute Inmates on the Same Day The New York Times
- 3 men set for lethal injection on same day in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma npr.org
- The busiest day on death row in years sees 2 executions, with 1 remaining USA Today
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