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Three Capital Executions Carried Out on Single Day Across Three U.S. States
Just the facts
Oklahoma executed 70-year-old Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in McAlester for the 2003 murder of Olimpia Fisher. Tennessee executed 66-year-old Darrell Hines for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins following a rejected legal appeal regarding execution protocols. Alabama executed 42-year-old Jeremy Williams by lethal injection for the 2021 rape and murder of five-year-old Kamarie Holland after Williams waived further appeals. The three executions represent a rare same-day scheduling coincidence following a nationwide total of 47 executions recorded in 2025.
Why this is news
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama executed death row inmates on the same day, marking the first time in 15 years that three judicial executions occurred in the United States within a single 24-hour period.
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